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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Mennonite"”.
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A comparative study of Mennonite and non-Mennonite high school girls in a selected community
Both the Mennonite and the Non-Mennonite girls participated in the same household activities and performed them to a similar degree; although the attitude of the Mennonite girls toward the activities was more positive. Apparently, there was little or no relation between the way the girls performed …
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Adolescents' sexual attitudes: a Mennonite sample
… adolescent respondents from the Virginia Mennonite Conference were surveyed regarding their perceived influences of their attitudes toward sexuality and the Mennonite Church's position on various sexual issues. The adolescents were more sure of their own beliefs about sexuality than they …
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
Many Mennonite scholars have maintained that a conflict exists between the values held by the Mennonite faith community and the values of a broader society whose economy is based on capitalism. The self-proclaimed philosophies of capitalism and Mennonitism, competition and communalism, are not …
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Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders
This dissertation analyzes the ways in which Mennonite rhetors used historical narratives to construct a coherent Mennonite identity in the 1940s and 1950s. During this era, U.S. American Mennonites faced a multitude of threats to their sectarian group identity, most especially during the Second …
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The History of the Eastern Mennonite High School Touring Choir: 1917-1981
For more than 35 years, the Eastern Mennonite High School Touring Choir has provided concerts for choral enthusiasts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. The present study documents the development, establishment, and growth of Touring Choir from its inception, through June of 1981: …
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An experiment in programmed business mathematics at Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Virginia
… students from grades 9, 10, and 12, at Eastern Mennonite High School. The purpose of the experiment was to obtain these data: 1. What kind of errors do high school students make on the program? 2. What changes need to be made in the program to adapt it for use on the high school level? 3. Can …
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Le martyre et le temps : Tieleman Jansz. van Braght, le martyrologe mennonite et l'histoire
… (published in 1660), the conservative Dutch Mennonite Tieleman Jansz. van Braght propose an original interpretation of the Christian past. In order to put together a succession of witnesses, he examines one by one the ancient or medieval spiritual ancestors who, at the time, were claimed by …
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Books on the border land : a Mennonite woman's memoir of reading and remembering the sacred
… written from my perspective as a Manitoba Mennonite woman and English Language Arts educator, is a memoir of books and reading. As a voracious reader, I am dismayed by the general perception of literacy in public schools as being a set of measureable tasks, and I have found that reading, in …
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Called to mission : Mennonite women missionaries in Central Africa in the second half of the twentieth century
… of call" as a potential support factor for Mennonite women missionaries from North America based in Central Africa during the latter half of the twentieth century. The investigation is conducted in two main parts. In the first we investigate the theological-historical distinctives of the …
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The meaning of caring for a child who has renal failure : a phenomenological study of urban Aboriginal caregivers
The story of Mennonite migrations since the sixteenth century is largely the history of some religious people who tried to find the perfect expression of their faith in this world. Initially because of religious persecution, migration to other countries, for those Mennonites, was often a means of …
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… of non-English words in the novels of Canadian Mennonites perpetuates a cultural binary, and concludes that it does not. The use of the non-English word, rather than enforcing a binary between "us and them", ultimately reveals that cultural boundaries are permeable and unstable. Recent …
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Narratives of the Leadership Development of Adults Who Served as Summer Camp Staff in the Mennonite Setting : a Multiple Case Study
… A case study method (Yin) was utilized in the Mennonite camp setting. The data in this setting were gathered through the participants’ stories of their experiences using narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin). The criterion for this purposeful sampling directly reflected the purpose for this …
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Planting Missional Mennonite Churches in Complex Social Contexts as the Denomination Undergoes a Paradigm Shift in Ecclesiology: a Multiple Case Study
… attempt to establish a missional culture within Mennonite Church USA has been subverted by an underdeveloped change process. The study recommended a narratological approach to organizational culture development that involves generative learning and reflexive dialogue. This approach is consistent …
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When To Stay, When To Go: A Cost-Benefits Analysis of Church Membership and Regular Attendance
… of eight former members of the Sunrise Mennonite Church. One former leader and three current church leaders from the Sunrise Mennonite Church were also interviewed for their perspective of the costs and benefits of church membership. The findings of this study were consistent with the …
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… have traced the complex evolution of Dutch Mennonite theology and culture from the sixteenth century through the Enlightenment, this study brings a new, interdisciplinary application of these findings to the analysis of visual representations that interpreted 16th-century Dutch Anabaptism …
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Migraes
… I created this exhibition to interpret their Mennonite Heritage stories, retold and responded to by using printmaking techniques. The artwork and its presentation in the gallery explore the topic of ‘migratory aesthetics,’ more specifically the repeated acts of migration made in the pursuit of …
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Defining a place: focal point for a fragmented town
… Being situated within a heavily populated Mennonite community, this location provides the perfect opportunity to establish this individuality and make a special place, a place familiar to those who live and work there and curiously inviting to those who may visit. The primary vehicle for …
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The politics of the crucified: a study of the political theology of John Howard Yoder, Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino with special reference to the crucifixion
… in particular as interlocutors -– the Mennonite theologian John Yoder and the Latin American liberation theologians Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino – with special reference to an examination of the ways in which their political theologies are shaped by the cross. The first part of the …
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Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
… result is an ecumenical dialogue among Yoder (a Mennonite), Day, (a Roman Catholic), and Stringfellow (an Episcopalian) about how to describe this social existence, how the church structures and practices contribute to the articulation of nonviolence, and how to speak theologically about the …
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En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas.
… by isolating them in the smaller group, the Mennonite community, through the study of personal and temporal relationships that define the subjectivity of the film's protagonist.
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