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Family, Church, and Market
Royden Loewen
其他書名
A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930
出版University of Illinois Press, 1993
主題History / Canada / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Religion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / MennoniteSocial Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN02520632529780252063251
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X7GnozkwU_QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1874, a group of nine hundred Mennonites migrated from Russia to the western plains of Canada and the United States, settling in and around Steinbach, Manitoba, and Jansen, Nebraska. This social history shows how these conservative, German-speaking farm families adapted to an increasingly urbanized and industrialized world. Royden Loewen examines how the men and women of this immigrant group devised strategies to maintain familiar social structures and cultural patterns within a changing society. Because these Mennonites were highly literate, leaving a rich array of diaries, letters, and memoirs, their everyday lives and ethnic self-perceptions can be reconstituted in detail. Loewen's account tells of three generations of Mennonites for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The sectarian, lay-oriented church congregation interpreted life's meaning and enforced strict social boundaries on the community level. These traditionalist aims were coupled with a sensitive adaptation to the market economy of the outside world.