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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.
Women in church work --- Mennonite women --- Church work --- Women, Mennonite --- Christian women --- Mennonites. --- Societies and clubs.
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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.
Reformation. --- Christian women martyrs --- Anabaptist women --- Christian women --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Biography. --- History --- Femmes anabaptistes --- Martyres chrétiennes --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Biographies
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Korean American women --- Methodist women --- Methodist Church --- Christian sects --- Women, Methodist --- Christian women --- Women, Korean American --- Women --- Religious life --- Membership. --- United Methodist Church (U.S.) --- Methodist Church (U.S.) --- Evangelical United Brethren Church --- Evangelisch-Methodistische Kirche (U.S.) --- Iglesia Metodista Unida (U.S.) --- Global Methodist Church
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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.
Mormon women --- Mormons --- Pioneers --- Women pioneers --- Biography. --- Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, --- Missouri River Valley. --- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormon women -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormons -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, 1823-1860. --- Women pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormon pioneers --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Women, Mormon --- Christian women --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Missouri River Valley --- Parker, Mary Haskin, --- Parker, Mary, --- Missouri Valley --- Latter Day Saint women --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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