Mennonites In Early Modern Poland And Prussia
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Mennonites In Early Modern Poland And Prussia
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Author : Peter J. Klassen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-05-25
Mennonites In Early Modern Poland And Prussia written by Peter J. Klassen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-25 with Religion categories.
At a time when religious conflicts and persecution plagued early modern Europe, Poland and Prussia were havens for Mennonites and other religious minorities. Noted Anabaptist scholar Peter J. Klassen examines this extraordinary example of religious tolerance. Through extensive archival research in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands, Klassen unearths rich material that has rarely, if ever, been studied previously. He demonstrates how the interaction of religious, political, and economic factors created a situation in Poland and Prussia that permitted a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia focuses on the large Mennonite community in these countries. Klassen reveals how the Anabaptist groups were treated and explores whether the uncommon religious freedom they enjoyed gave rise to a flourishing of their faith or a falling away from its central tenets. Early modern Poland and Prussia are virtually ignored in most studies of the Reformation. 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.
Mennonites In Early Modern Poland And Prussia
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Author : Peter J. Klassen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-05-25
Mennonites In Early Modern Poland And Prussia written by Peter J. Klassen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-25 with History categories.
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.
A Homeland For Strangers
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Author : Peter James Klassen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Homeland For Strangers written by Peter James Klassen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Mennonites categories.
Brief overview of the Mennonite settlements in Poland and Prussia.
T T Clark Handbook Of Anabaptism
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Author : Brian C. Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-30
T T Clark Handbook Of Anabaptism written by Brian C. Brewer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Religion categories.
By utilizing the contributions of a variety of scholars – theologians, historians, and biblical scholars – this book makes the complex and sometimes disparate Anabaptist movement more easily accessible. It does this by outlining Anabaptism's early history during the Reformation of the sixteenth century, its varied and distinctive theological convictions, and its ongoing challenges to and influence on contemporary Christianity. T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism comprises four sections: 1) Origins, 2) Doctrine, 3) Influences on Anabaptism, and 4) Contemporary Anabaptism and Relationship to Others. The volume concludes with a chapter on how contemporary Anabaptists interact with the wider Church in all its variety. While some of the authorities within the volume will disagree even with one another regarding Anabaptist origins, emphases on doctrine, and influence in the contemporary world, such differences represent the diversity that constitutes the history of this movement.
Living In The World
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Author : Ronald C. Jantz
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-05-01
Living In The World written by Ronald C. Jantz and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with Religion categories.
In the pages of this book, the reader will experience the religious adventure of Anabaptism and appreciate the core principles of nonconformity and nonresistance. This narrative history will impart an understanding of how a little-known group of Mennonites migrated through the countries of Western Europe, ultimately to bring a unique way of life to the Great Plains of America. Today, these people hope to live apart from the world as the Holdeman people or, more formally, the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite.
Mennonites In The Russian Empire And The Soviet Union
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Author : Leonard G. Friesen
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Mennonites In The Russian Empire And The Soviet Union written by Leonard G. Friesen and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with History categories.
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.
Johann Cornies The Mennonites And Russian Colonialism In Southern Ukraine
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Author : John R. Staples
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2023-11-01
Johann Cornies The Mennonites And Russian Colonialism In Southern Ukraine written by John R. Staples and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-01 with History categories.
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era. Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine.
Concise Encyclopedia Of Amish Brethren Hutterites And Mennonites
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Author : Donald B. Kraybill
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Concise Encyclopedia Of Amish Brethren Hutterites And Mennonites written by Donald B. Kraybill and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Religion categories.
Donald B. Kraybill has spent his career among Anabaptist groups, gaining an unparalleled understanding of these traditionally private people. Kraybill shares that deep knowledge in this succinct overview of the beliefs and cultural practices of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Found throughout Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the United States, these religious communities include more than 200 different groups with 800,000 members in 17 countries. Through 340 short entries, Kraybill offers readers information on a wide range of topics related to religious views and social practices. With thoughtful consideration of how these diverse communities are related, this compact reference provides a brief and accurate synopsis of these groups in the twenty-first century. No other single volume provides such a broad overview of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Organized for ease of searching—with a list of entries, a topic finder, an index of names, and ample cross-references—the volume also includes abundant resources for accessing additional information. Wide in scope, succinct in content, and with directional markers along the way, the Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites is a must-have reference for anyone interested in Anabaptist groups.
Odyssey Of Faith
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Author : Richard Endress
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2021-02-26
Odyssey Of Faith written by Richard Endress and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-26 with Reference categories.
This family history traces the Doerksen family back to their Mennonite roots, and then follows that family’s peregrinations from the Low Countries on Europe’s northern coast, to the Vistula Delta region of modern Poland, to a self-governing colony in czarist Russia, to the Great Plains of the United States, and, finally, to the San Joaquin Valley and then the coast of California. My goal is to provide future generations of the family with an accurate and inspiring understanding of their past.
California Mennonites
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Author : Brian Froese
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-02-19
California Mennonites written by Brian Froese and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-19 with History categories.
"Books geographically focused on the midwestern and eastern states dominate the study of Mennonites in America. The intriguing history of Mennonites in the American West remains untold. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, Brian Froese introduces readers for the first time to the California Mennonite experience. Although a few Mennonites did dig for gold in the 1850s, the real story of Mennonites in California begins in the 1890s with westward migrations for fertile soil and healthy sunshine. By the mid-twentieth century, the Mennonite story in California had developed into an interesting tale of religious conservatives--traditional agrarians--finding their way in an increasingly urban and religiously pluralistic California. Some California Mennonites negotiated new identities by endorsing conservative evangelicalism; some found them in reclamations of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Still other Mennonites found meaningful religious experience by engaging in social action and justice even when these actions appeared in "secular" forms. These emerging identities--Evangelical, Anabaptist, and secular--covered a broad spectrum, yet represented a selective retaining and discarding of Mennonite religious practices and expressions. From Digging Gold to Saving Souls touches on such topics as migration, pluralism, race, gender, pacifism, institutional construction, education, and labor conflict, all of which defined the experience of Mennonites of California. Brian Froese shows how this experience was a rich, complex, and deliberate move into modern society. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, he introduces readers to a dynamic people who did not simply become modern, but who chose to modernize on their own terms"--