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Author | : Institute of Mennonite Studies (Elkhart, Ind.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mennonites |
ISBN | : |
Download History and Theology of the Mennonites of Prussia/Poland and the Former Soviet Union Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter J. Klassen |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801891132 |
Download Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.
Author | : Wally Kroeker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1680992449 |
Download Introduction to Russian Mennonites Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and Europe. Nearly all retain memories and stories from that place -- unbelievable prosperity for some; unspeakable terror for many; church tensions; struggles between the landed and the landless; exquisite clockmaking, storytelling, musicmaking, and food. Himself a Russian Mennonite, Kroeker heads into the history, but also the later movement of these people to the U.S. and Canada. Are they at all distinctive today? What has drawn some to the cities and professions, and others to the rural prairies? What about those in Europe, and those still in the former Soviet Union? Kroeker tells it all with vibrancy -- the overview and the memorable details. Includes dozens of historic and contemporary photographs. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author | : Leonard G. Friesen |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 148750568X |
Download Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.
Author | : Ben Boese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Alexanderwohl Mennonites Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter James Klassen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Brief overview of the Mennonite settlements in Poland and Prussia.
Author | : Mark Jantzen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Mennonite German Soldiers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform.
Author | : Hermann Gottlieb Mannhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Danzig Mennonite Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Benjamin W. Goossen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069119274X |
Download Chosen Nation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.
Author | : James Urry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download None But Saints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Mennonites are heirs to the Anabaptist movement of the Reformation period in Western and Central Europe. Mennonite groups from what is today the Netherlands and northwestern Germany settled in Danzig (Gdansk) and Polish-Prussia from the sixteenth century on-wards. At the end of the eighteenth century large numbers of their descendants began to emigrate to the southern steppes of the Ukraine, a movement which continued well into the nineteenth century. This book deals with the first century of Russian Mennonite settlement, and the dynamics of change in Mennonite communities in Russia between 1789 and 1889. It chronicles the establishment in southern Russia of prosperous agrarian colonies, the foundation of religious congregations and the creation of new economic, social and political institutions. Mennonites in Russia had to face the dual challenge of the emergence of a modern, industrial society and the increasing power of the Russian State. As Mennonites responded to these challenges, and some grew rich and successful, tension and conflict in their communities increased. This resulted in the division of congregations and communities and the further emigration of many Mennonites to North America." -- Back cover