List of Tables; Preface: Arrival ... and Departure; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One The transformations of community; Chapter Two Negotiating states, rejecting nations; Chapter Three Inter-colony dynamics; Chapter Four Articulations, connections and short-circuits; Chapter Five Careers in the faith; Chapter Six Scriptural practices; Chapter Seven The handling of dissenters; Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index
Summary
This volume challenges received images of Old Colony Mennonites as 'living in the past' or perfect examples of community. Through the concept of the 'imagination of the future' this book presents an analysis of their historical transformations as the result of attempting to apply in practice their Christian ideals of building a community of believers in the world, while remaining separate from it. It argues that while they contributed to the territorialisation of the states that hosted them through their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, they sys
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index
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