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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... participants in church women's societies , missionaries , and church leaders . Only recently has attention been paid to documenting what women have done in the church . It is commonly said that the Church would not have survived over ...
... participants in the women's movement " and accepted " their role in terms of the traditional attributes of duty ... participation within church women's societies . They not only learned to organize meetings and acquire leadership ...
... participation of Mennonite women within the context of Vereine nor to the significance of Vereine for women . Why did Mennonite women establish their own societies ? What did the experience of participation in Vereine mean for Mennonite ...
... participants in the male power . ' Women's history explores the reasons for prescribed roles and addresses " the consequences of gender , ' one of which is that women often lived in two worlds , the male world and the female world ...
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