The Waterloo Mennonites: A Community in Paradox

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1989年11月14日 - 391 頁

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.

 

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Chapter 1 Meet the Mennonites of Waterloo
1
Chapter 2 Pilgrimage and persecution in Europe
5
Chapter 3 The coming of the Mennonites to Waterloo
19
Chapter 4 Mennonites as community builders
35
Chapter 5 Changing population patterns in Waterloo
49
Chapter 6 Beyond the ethnic label
59
Chapter 7 The element of faith in shaping community
77
Chapter 8 Being the church and doing its work
89
Chapter 16 Finding in politics a way to serve
249
Chapter 17 Credit money and mutual aid
265
Chapter 18 Standing in the way of change
281
Chapter 19 Mennonites as seen by their neighbours
297
Chapter 20 Tomorrow turns on choices made today
315
Appendix 1 Identification of Mennonite groups in the Waterloo study
329
Appendix 2 Waterloo County becomes the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
335
Appendix 3 Occupational categories gainfully employed Waterloo area Mennonites 1972
337

Chapter 9 Winning and losing church members
109
Chapter 10 The familys response to change
131
Chapter 11 As the school so goes the church
147
Chapter 12 Farmingthe sacred vocation
181
Chapter 13 Occupations shape the church
201
Chapter 14 Leisure shapes a way of life
215
Chapter 15 Health and welfare in forms old and new
231
Appendix 4 Size of congregations in ten conferences
341
Appendix 5 House of Friendship program 19871988
343
Appendix 6 Explanatory comments on Mennonite census
347
Endnotes
349
Bibliography
363
Index
375
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關於作者 (1989)

J. Winfield Fretz was the founding President of Conrad Grebel University College. He also introduced the study of Mennonites into the University curriculum and taught many large classes on the Mennonites.

書目資訊

書名The Waterloo Mennonites: A Community in Paradox
desLibris: Books collection
作者J. Winfield Fretz
版本圖解
出版者Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1989
ISBN0889209855, 9780889209855
頁數391 頁
  
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