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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mennonites"”.
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Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders
… 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 World War. In response to these exigencies, a group of American Mennonite historians, who would later become known as the "Goshen Circle" of …
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
… that viewed historically, the involvement of Mennonites in business life is not only compatible with Mennonite beliefs, but is encouraged by them. The most well known presentation of the synergistic relationship between religion and capitalism is that of Max Weber in The Protestant Ethic and …
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… as well as emblems and allegories. Meanwhile, Mennonites themselves were slower to produce or commission apologetical imagery supporting their long-established efforts to distance themselves from Münsterite violence and promote the pacifist ideals advocated by leaders such as Menno Simons. …
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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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The meaning of caring for a child who has renal failure : a phenomenological study of urban Aboriginal caregivers
… migration to other countries, for those Mennonites, was often a means of survival. Later when religious persecution stopped, migration for some Mennonite groups became a means to preserve the purity of their faith, which was characterized by an emphasis on a holy life and complete …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
… the form of recently immigrated Mexican-Canadian Mennonites, some of whom have long acted as Mexican cartel-agents. Despite the fearsome reputation of Mexican cartels, there has been no noticeable increase in drug-related violence in Canada, and it is highly unlikely that they will bring …
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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
… than an alternative society, the inability of Mennonites to allow themselves to be hosted by others, and the tendency to replicate ministries rather than envision reproducing, contextualized ministries. Hospitality was identified as a significant multi-dimensional issue in developing a …
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Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-scale documentation project
… Swiss dialect.</p> <p>The history of the Swiss Mennonites who settled the Berne, Indiana, area is presented, situating the dialect geographically, historically, and linguistically. An assessment of past and present patterns of language use within the community suggests that the time for …