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The work of their hands
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ISBN: 9780889206373 0889206376 0889202702 9780889202702 1282233378 9786613811110 9781282233379 6613811114 Year: 1996 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont.

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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.

Profiles of Anabaptist women
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ISBN: 1554587905 1280925949 9786610925940 0889206031 9780889206038 9781554587902 9781280925948 9780889202771 088920277X 6610925941 Year: 1996 Volume: 3 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted, and women leaders in Augsburg.

Women struggling for a new life
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ISBN: 0585033277 9780585033273 0791427374 0791427382 1438409001 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

Winter quarters
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ISBN: 0874213029 0585098484 0874212073 9780874213027 9780585098487 9780874212075 9780874215526 Year: 1996 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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Volume 1, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, edited by Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMary Richard's journals and letters record a young woman's rare, but richly detailed view of life in the temporary Mormon pioneer communities in Iowa.

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