The Work of Their Hands: Mennonite Women’s Societies in CanadaWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 16. okt. 1996 - 172 sider Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. For women who were restricted from leadership positions within the church, these societies became the primary avenue of church involvement. Through them they contributed vast amounts of energy, time and financial resources to the mission activity of the church. The societies thus became a context in which women could speak, pray and creatively give expression to their own understanding of the biblical message. Using primary sources such as reports, letters, minutes, etc., as well as society histories, interviews and survey data, Redekop charts the development of these societies, from the establishment of the earliest ones in the 1870s to their flowering in the fifties and sixties and their decline in the eighties and nineties. The Work of Their Hands elucidates the context in which Mennonite women lived their identity as Christian women, one considered appropriate by themselves and the institutional church. It also shows how changes to the societies, including declining membership and a shift in their primary focus from sewing and baking to one of spiritual fellowship, reflect the changing roles of women within the church, the home and the wider society. The Work of Their Hands is an important book in the history of Mennonite women’s spirituality and will be a valuable resource for religious studies, women’s studies and Canadian history. |
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... church societies , which they called Vereine1 . While these were not without ... ( MB ) . These Mennonite groups had their origins in the 1500s in the European ... MB . The CMC , numbering 29,192 members in 1988 , an amalgamation of various ...
... MB women's societies organized in churches formed between the first year of the first immigration period ( 1874 ) ... church histories , and church periodicals . These included annual yearbooks of both the MB Church and the CMC for ...
... MB Church in Herbert , Saskatchewan , for the years 1973 to 1987. In Winnipeg , Manitoba , I examined archival material of the Women's Conference of the Manitoba MB Churches including correspondence and minutes of their organizational ...
... MB churches in Canada , comprising all CMC and MB societies currently in operation and organized in churches ... church varied , depending on how many women's groups were in each church . In the CMC , survey forms were sent to one of the ...
... MB PROVINCE POSSIBLE ACTUAL PERCENT POSSIBLE ACTUAL PERCENT RETURN RETURN RETURN RETURN RETURN RETURN British 30 13 ... church was part of a church woman's society . It discusses the ways in which women's societies flowered between 1953 ...
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