Mennonite Farmers

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887552618

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Mennonite Farmers by Royden Loewen Pdf

Mennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist communities around the world, focusing on Mennonite farmers in Bolivia, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States, and Zimbabwe. These farmers, who include Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Siberian Baptists, till the land in starkly distinctive climates. They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment. The book reveals the ways in which modern-day Mennonite farmers have adjusted to diverse temperatures, precipitation, soil types, and relative degrees of climate change. These farmers have faced broad global forces of modernization during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from commodity markets and intrusive governments to technologies marked increasingly by the mechanical, chemical, and genetic. As Mennonites, Loewen writes, these farmers were raised with knowledge of the historic Anabaptist teachings on community, simplicity, and peace that stood alongside ideas on place and sustainability. Nonetheless, conditioned by gender, class, ethnicity, race, and local values, they put their agricultural ideas into practice in remarkably diverse ways. Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887552632

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Mennonite Farmers by Royden Loewen Pdf

Mennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist communities around the world, focusing on Mennonite farmers in Bolivia, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States, and Zimbabwe. These farmers, who include Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Siberian Baptists, till the land in starkly distinctive climates. They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment. The book reveals the ways in which modern-day Mennonite farmers have adjusted to diverse temperatures, precipitation, soil types, and relative degrees of climate change. These farmers have faced broad global forces of modernization during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from commodity markets and intrusive governments to technologies marked increasingly by the mechanical, chemical, and genetic. As Mennonites, Loewen writes, these farmers were raised with knowledge of the historic Anabaptist teachings on community, simplicity, and peace that stood alongside ideas on place and sustainability. Nonetheless, conditioned by gender, class, ethnicity, race, and local values, they put their agricultural ideas into practice in remarkably diverse ways. Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.

Author : Kenneth B. Beesley,Pamela J. MacIntosh,Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Humanities Department
Publisher : Truro, N.S. : Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Department of Humanities
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Farmers
ISBN : 155174001X

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Cultural Perspectives on Farmers' Perceptions : Mennonite by Kenneth B. Beesley,Pamela J. MacIntosh,Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Humanities Department Pdf

Author : Calvin Wall Redekop,Victor A. Krahn,Samuel J. Steiner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 081919350X

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Anabaptist/Mennonite Faith and Economics by Calvin Wall Redekop,Victor A. Krahn,Samuel J. Steiner Pdf

The continuing conflict between the Anabaptist/Mennonite community and the expanding industrial culture of the modern world has not been investigated. This book addresses the issues which fuel that conflict, focusing on the implications of subordinating an economic system to the theological framework of a Christian society. Contributors: Gregory Baum, Lawrence J. Burkholder, Leo Driedger, Kevin Enns-Rempel, Norm Ewert, Jim Halteman, Leland Harder, Al Hecht, Jim Lichti, Jacob A. Leowen, John Peters, Cal Redekop, Walter Regehr, T.D. Regehr, Jean Seguy, Robert Siemens, Arnold Snyder, Willis Sommer, Mary Sprunger, and Laura Weaver. Co-published with the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies.

Author : Johanna Wandel,Julius A. Mage,University of Guelph. Department of Geography
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : Department of Geography, University of Guelph
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085829137

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Stability and Change in an Old Order Mennonite Farming System in the Waterloo Region, Ontario by Johanna Wandel,Julius A. Mage,University of Guelph. Department of Geography Pdf

Author : Marlene Epp
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553431

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Mennonite Women in Canada by Marlene Epp Pdf

"Mennonite Women in Canada "traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite women offer a rich and fascinating study of how women actively participate in ordering their lives within ethno-religious communities.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550584

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Hidden Worlds by Royden Loewen Pdf

In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted, however, is that they created in their everyday lives a world that ensured their cultural longevity and social cohesiveness in a new land.Their adaptation to the New World required new concepts of social boundary and community, new strategies of land ownership and legacy, new associations, and new ways of interacting with markets. In Hidden Worlds, historian Royden Loewen illuminates some of these adaptations, which have been largely overshadowed by an emphasis on institutional history, or whose sources have only recently been revealed. Through an analysis of diaries, wills, newspaper articles, census and tax records, and other literature, an examination of inheritance practices, household dynamics, and gender relations, and a comparison of several Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada, Loewen uncovers the multi-dimensional and highly resourceful character of the 1870s migrants.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802094186

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Diaspora in the Countryside by Royden Loewen Pdf

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to make the change, migrated to nearby towns or regional cities. The cultural reformulation that resulted saw the emergence of a genuine rural diaspora. The growing cultural and physical separation was especially true for close-knit, ethno-religious communities, Mennonites, in particular. Forced into regional cities, the kaleidoscopic urban culture further fragmented the Mennonites into disparate social entities. In Diaspora in the Countryside, the phenomena of rural fragmentation is examined by comparing and contrasting two closely-related but distinctive Dutch-Russian Mennonite communities located in different parts of the continent: Kansas and Manitoba, respectively. By systematically comparing these communities, two distinctive responses to the mid-twentieth century 'Great Disjuncture' are made apparent. Royden Loewen also contrasts the cultural changes of these farm families to the cultures their kin adopted in nearby towns and cities. Loewen charts not only the dispersion of two rural communities, but follows their former residents as they reformulate their lives in new settings.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0252063252

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Family, Church, and Market by Royden Loewen Pdf

Loewen examines how the Mennonites' social structure and life goals accommodated societal changes and tells of three generations for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The group's strategies of cultural continuity dictated that they adapt sensitively and carefully to the market economy and the outside world. Photos. Maps.

Author : Daniel B. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830415734

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Old Order Mennonites by Daniel B. Lee Pdf

Lee focuses on the Weaverland Conference of Old Order Mennonites, a group formed in 1893 and now consisting of over 5,000 members. A large concentration of Weaverland Mennonites live in upstate New York near Seneca Falls, and Lee focuses his easily readable sociological study on that community. Individual chapters deal with the worship, rituals, rules, and discipline of the group, and with a number of recent defections to a more mainstream Mennonite Church located in the same area. Lee argues that Weaverland Mennonites are held together by their practices alone, rather than by a common underlying set of beliefs. --Choice Magazine

Author : J. Winfield Fretz
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554586868

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The Waterloo Mennonites by J. Winfield Fretz Pdf

The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing support, the larger community including the two universities and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and public funding agencies. This book seeks to derive a clearer understanding of the sociological characteristics of a single Mennonite community, beginning with the historical and religious background of the Waterloo Mennonites, reviewing their European origins, their ethnic identification, and their immigration experience. It also examines their basic institutions: religion and church, marriage and the family, education and the school, economics and earning a living, government and how they relate to it, their use of leisure time and methods of recreation. It also looks at the way Mennonites interact with the larger society and how that society responds.

Author : Brian Froese
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781421415130

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California Mennonites by Brian Froese Pdf

How did California Mennonites confront the challenges and promises of modernity? Books about Mennonites have centered primarily on the East Coast and the Midwest, where the majority of Mennonite communities in the United States are located. But these narratives neglect the unique history of the multitude of Mennonites living on the West Coast. In California Mennonites, Brian Froese relies on archival church records to examine the Mennonite experience in the Golden State, from the nineteenth-century migrants who came in search of sunshine and fertile soil to the traditionally agrarian community that struggled with issues of urbanization, race, gender, education, and labor in the twentieth century to the evangelically oriented, partially assimilated Mennonites of today. Froese places Mennonite experiences against a backdrop of major historical events, including World War II and Vietnam, and social issues, from labor disputes to the evolution of mental health care. California Mennonites include people who embrace a range of ideologies: many are historically rooted in the sixteenth-century Reformation ideals of the early Anabaptists (pacifism, congregationalism, discipleship); some embrace twentieth-century American evangelicalism (missions, Billy Graham); and others are committed to a type of social justice that involves forging practical ties to secular government programs while maintaining a quiet connection to religion. Through their experiences of religious diversity, changing demographics, and war, California Mennonites have wrestled with complicated questions of what it means to be American, Mennonite, and modern. This book—the first of its kind—will appeal to historians and religious studies scholars alike.

Author : Gordon Miller
Publisher : Masthof Press & Bookstore
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 9781601264947

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Maplecrest Turkey Farms, Inc. by Gordon Miller Pdf

In the late 1920s until 1965 Maplecrest Turkey Farms of Wellman, Iowa, was a leading pioneer in the modern commercial turkey industry. A. C. Gingerich, an Amish-Mennonite farmer and entrepreneur, was able to successfully develop his business from a handful of turkeys to make Wellman both a “Turkey Capital/Center of the World” and have it uniquely proclaimed as “Thanksgiving Town” by the late 1930s. The Maplecrest brand was known for its premium quality and was available, by name, in leading restaurants also by the late 1930s. This historical book looks at how the modern turkey industry was able to initiate itself largely through knowledge of disease prevention through sanitation means. Some chapters include topics such as how the turkeys were raised, processed and marketed, especially to Eastern markets, e.g. New York City, Boston, etc., and a chapter on World War II discusses the major role that Maplecrest played in producing not only turkeys, but beef, pork and lamb for the armed forces.

Author : James Urry
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887554117

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Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood by James Urry Pdf

Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry’s meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. He stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Urry looks at the Mennonite reaction to politics and political events from the Reformation onwards and focusses particularly on those people who settled in Russia and their descendants who came to Manitoba. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the “Quiet in the Land,” have deep roots in politics.

Author : Julius A. Mage,Sharon Fletcher,University of Guelph. Dept. of Geography
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : Department of Geography, University of Guelph
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Farms
ISBN : 0889551847

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Recent Migration of Mennonite Farmers Into the Mount Forest Area by Julius A. Mage,Sharon Fletcher,University of Guelph. Dept. of Geography Pdf