Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia : nation making, religious conflict and imagination of the future /

This volume challenges received images of Old Colony Mennonites as 'living in the past' or perfect examples of community. Through the concept of the 'imagination of the future' this book presents an analysis of their historical transformations as the result of attempting to apply...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Religion in the Americas series ; v. 7.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Old Colony Mennonites.
Mennonites > Argentina.
Mennonites > Bolivia.
Mennonites > Argentine.
Mennonites > Bolivie.
RELIGION > Christianity > Mennonite.
Mennonites
Old Colony Mennonites
Mennoniten
Soziale Integration
Schule
Desintegration > Soziologie
Doopsgezinden.
Argentina > Religious life and customs.
Bolivia > Religious life and customs.
Argentina > Church history.
Argentina
Bolivia
Argentinien
Bolivien
Argentinië.
Bolivia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This volume challenges received images of Old Colony Mennonites as 'living in the past' or perfect examples of community. Through the concept of the 'imagination of the future' this book presents an analysis of their historical transformations as the result of attempting to apply in practice their Christian ideals of building a community of believers in the world, while remaining separate from it. It argues that while they contributed to the territorialisation of the states that hosted them through their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, they sys.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
ISBN:9789047430636
9047430638
ISSN:1542-1279 ;

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