Old Order Mennonites

Author : Daniel B. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Stephen Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781680992434

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Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups by Stephen Scott Pdf

This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form. What holds these people together? Why are they growing in number? Where do they live? The Old Order Mennonites are less well known than the Amish, but are similar in many beliefs and practices. Some Old Order Mennonites drive horses and buggies. Others use cars for transportation. Conservative Mennonite groups vary a great deal, but in general espouse strong faith and family life and believe that how they live should distinguish them from the larger society around them. The author details courtship and wedding practices, methods of worship, dress, transportation, and vocation. Never before has there been such an inside account of these people and their lives. The author spent years conferring and interviewing members of the various groups, trying to portray their history and their story in a fair and accurate manner. An enjoyable, educational, inspiring book.

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,James P. Hurd
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271028651

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Horse-and-buggy Mennonites by Donald B. Kraybill,James P. Hurd Pdf

Examining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.

Author : Elmer Schwieder,Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298486

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A Peculiar People by Elmer Schwieder,Dorothy Schwieder Pdf

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish. A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 “Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards”; a sample “Church Organization Financial Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish. Thomas Morain’s new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community—has served its members well into the twenty-first century.

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,Carl Desportes Bowman,Carl F. Bowman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801870895

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On the Backroad to Heaven by Donald B. Kraybill,Carl Desportes Bowman,Carl F. Bowman Pdf

This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.

Author : Isaac R. Horst
Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110932105

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Bei Sich Selwer Un Ungewehnlich by Isaac R. Horst Pdf

Isaac R. Horst, an Old Order Mennonite author, explains the customs, beliefs, and culture of his people in Ontario-in English and in Pennsylvania German. Horst presents his community through the story of a typical boy. Menno Martin grows through childhood at home, on the farm, and in school. He attends Sunday services, goes to youth singings, takes instruction classes, and is baptized as a member of the church. Menno farms, courts and marries Grace, and goes through the lot to be a preacher. Join the excitement of a barn raising. Eavesdrop as Grace describes quilting to Menno. Get a taste of butchering day. Learn what it is like to live in an Old Order Mennonite community. Includes black-and-white drawings illustrating a typical farm home, arrangements for a wedding, a Mennonite meetinghouse, a barn raising, buggies, and clothing details. There is also a glossary of typical Mennonite terms.

Author : Donald Martin
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89081283558

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Old Order Mennonites of Ontario by Donald Martin Pdf

Donald Martin, who stands within the conservative Mennonite community, provides a unique and detailed history of the formation of the numerous groups of Old Order Mennonites. He traces the principle of Gelassenheit through the centuries from the teachings of Jesus, to the Anabaptists in Europe, to the hearts and homes of the Old Order Mennonites of today. The application of the principle of Gelassenheit is portrayed as a primary difference between the Old Order Mennonites and modern forms of Christianity.

Author : Diane Zimmerman Umble
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801863759

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Holding the Line by Diane Zimmerman Umble Pdf

An unexpected history of the Mennonites and Amish Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence, and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting telephone ownership among the clergy. By 1909, the Amish had banned the telephone completely from their homes. Since then, the vigorous and sometimes painful debates about the meaning of the telephone reveal intense concerns about the maintenance of boundaries between the community and the outside world and the processes Old Order communities use to confront and mediate change. In Holding the Line, Diane Zimmerman Umble offers a historical and ethnographic study of how the Old Order Mennonites and Amish responded to and accommodated the telephone from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. For Old Order communities, Umble writes, appropriate use of the telephone marks the edges of appropriate association—who can be connected to whom, in what context, and under what circumstances. Umble's analysis of the social meaning of the telephone explores the effect of technology on community identity and the maintenance of cultural values through the regulation of the means of communication.

Author : Esther Royer Ayers
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ex-church members
ISBN : 0873388283

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Rolling Down Black Stockings by Esther Royer Ayers Pdf

Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit in with another culture after leaving the church when her family moves to Akron, Ohio; and book 3 discusses the history and cultural dynamics of the religion. Ayers recounts how the Old Order Mennonite Church came into existence. Her personal account begins when she was eight years old, watching as her mother took care of her sick father. With intel-ligence and insight, Ayers describes how her family coped with the burden of not having enough income, which meant that the children were expected to work instead of getting an education. her Mennonite community, Ayers relates her difficulties trying to fit in at the public school and how she and her siblings were required to fall classes so that they would be expelled. It concludes with reflections on what all this meant to her. A rare and moving memoir, Rolling Down Black Stockings is also a valuable piece of social history that will appeal to historians as well as those interested in separatist communities and women's studies.

Author : Mary Ann Horst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : OCLC:639644789

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My Old Order Mennonite Heritage by Mary Ann Horst Pdf

Author : Karen Johnson-Weiner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801884950

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Train Up a Child by Karen Johnson-Weiner Pdf

Train Up a Child explores how private schools in Old Order Amish communities reflect and perpetuate church-community values and identity. Here, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner asserts that the reinforcement of those values among children is imperative to the survival of these communities in the modern world. Surveying settlements in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, Johnson-Weiner finds that, although Old Order communities have certain similarities in their codes of conduct, there is no standard Old Order school. She examines the choices each community makes—about pedagogy, curriculum, textbooks, even school design—to strengthen religious ideology, preserve the social and linguistic markers of Old Order identity, and protect their own community's beliefs and values from the influence of the dominant society. In the most comprehensive study of Old Order schools to date, Johnson-Weiner provides valuable insight into how variables such as community size and relationship with other Old Order groups affect the role of these schools in maintaining behavioral norms and in shaping the Old Order's response to modernity.

Author : Isaac R. Horst
Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028633290

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A Separate People by Isaac R. Horst Pdf

Isaac R. Horst presents his beloved Old Order people to a group touring the Mennonite country of Ontario. In Martin's Meetinghouse, he explains church events such as baptism, counsel meeting, conference of ministers, communion, feet washing, ordinations, and funerals. At a schoolhouse, Horst tells why the parochial school system was started and how it operates. His group visits farms and shops and helps with a barn raising. Horst also shares an array of subjects he has tested with an Elderhostel, such as marriage, roles of women and men, raising children, the unequal yoke, and mutual aid. Finally, his granddaughter asks questions that let grandpa share from his experience and wisdom. This book deftly gives an insider's account of Old Order Mennonites and why they live a separate life. Yes, Virginia, life is possible without Santa Claus and TV.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887554919

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Horse-and-Buggy Genius by Royden Loewen Pdf

The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things—ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption—that most people today take for granted. Loewen’s subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 8,000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 100,000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial region or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of “horse-and-buggy” Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. This equation is the genius at the heart of their world.

Author : Paton Yoder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579104689

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Tradition and Transition by Paton Yoder Pdf

This one hundred year story of the Amish church depicts the survival of the believers in the early part of the nineteenth century. Revealing the agony of the Great Schism of 1865 which fractured the Amish church, Yoder reveals the coming maturity of the Old Order Amish and the Amish Mennonites, who merged with the Mennonites early in the twentieth century. This book sheds light on the identity and heritage of faith and lifestyle of today's Amish and many Mennonites, and posits that although they hold in common the basic Christian faith, differences in their patterns of obedience remain.

Author : Beth Oberholtzer
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 0764353012

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Plain Meetinghouses by Beth Oberholtzer Pdf

Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted, Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home for 300 years. Their meetinghouses silently embody their religious traditions, and yet few outsiders have seen the startling utilitarian beauty of these rural structures up close. The author and photographer were allowed rare access to 22 austere houses of worship. The result is a one-of-a-kind book featuring over 300 photos and diagrams that document all aspects of the meetinghouses, from the design of their benches and buggy sheds to the arrangement of tables central to worship. As fast-growing Lancaster County encroaches on the Old Order way of life, their communities are changing. This book is a record of an extraordinary religious heritage.