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1 online resource (295) |
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List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; I Sectarianism; II Religious Continuity and Change; III The Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement; IV Mennonite Brethren Beginnings; V Delineating Boundaries; VI Enhancing Cohesion; VII Consolidating Identities; VIII Facilitating Socialization; IX Reinforcing Integration; X Education and Relativization; XI Urbanization and Fragility Hazards; XII Occupational Change and Reorientation; XIII Economic Ascendancy and Vertical Mobility; XIV Assimilation and Identity Crisis; XV Conclusion: Sectarian Persistence; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
More than 450 years after their birth in the Anabaptist movement, 125 years after their secession from Russian Mennonitism, and 60 years after their immigration to Canada, the Mennonite Brethren exhibit specific and measurable signs of sectarian viability and religious vitality. To explain the persistence of the sect, Hamm analyses the process of sacralization within the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Church - which ""safeguards identity, a system of meaning, or a definition of reality""--And the process of secularization - which ""erodes boundaries, dislodges stable structures, and destroys |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Mennonite Brethren Church of North America (1900-1963) -- Canada
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Mennonite Brethren Church of North America (1900-1963) fast |
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Mennonites -- Canada
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Christian sociology -- Canada
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Christian sociology -- Mennonites.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Essays.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Christian sociology
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Christian sociology -- Mennonites
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Mennonites
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Canada -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019285
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0889207941 |
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9780889207943 |
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