The Black Mennonite Church in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Mennonite Church in North America write by LeRoy Bechler. This book was released on 2001-02-09. The Black Mennonite Church in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unless a Grain of Wheat
Unless a Grain of Wheat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unless a Grain of Wheat write by Thomas A. Oduro. This book was released on 2021-10-06. Unless a Grain of Wheat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For six decades, North American Mennonites have walked alongside African Independent Churches (AICs) as they have navigated their faith journey between the ancient traditions of the ancestors and the newer claims of Christ upon their lives. The story of these relationships is a fascinating pilgrimage in partnership, offering hope for a mutuality that slips the knots of colonialism and testifies to the unifying power of the Holy Spirit. Beginning with a historical overview by missiologist Wilbert R. Shenk, this volume contains the reflections of over fifty AIC and Mennonite colleagues concerning the significance and impact of this long-standing partnership. Their stories illustrate the disparate threads of a sixty-year experiment in shared endeavor, while offering insight into the history of the church and missions in Africa. This book is a powerful account of mutual learning, forgiveness, and growth. It is an excellent resource for lovers of story, students of post-colonialism and indigenous Christianity, and all those concerned with building relationships across cultural and racial divides.
A Brief History of Missions in the Mennonite Church in North America
A Brief History of Missions in the Mennonite Church in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Missions in the Mennonite Church in North America write by Joe I. Kauffman. This book was released on 195?. A Brief History of Missions in the Mennonite Church in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Latino Mennonites
Latino Mennonites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latino Mennonites write by Felipe Hinojosa. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Latino Mennonites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Winner, 2015 Américo Paredes Book Award, Center for Mexican American Studies and South Texas College. Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What started as mutual admiration quickly evolved into a relationship that strengthened over the years and eventually led to his parents founding a Mennonite Church in South Texas. Throughout his upbringing as a Mexican American evangélico, Hinojosa was faced with questions not only about his own religion but also about broader issues of Latino evangelicalism, identity, and civil rights politics. Latino Mennonites offers the first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Drawing heavily on primary sources in Spanish, such as newspapers and oral history interviews, Hinojosa traces the rise of the Latino presence within the Mennonite Church from the origins of Mennonite missions in Latino communities in Chicago, South Texas, Puerto Rico, and New York City, to the conflicted relationship between the Mennonite Church and the California farmworker movements, and finally to the rise of Latino evangelical politics. He also analyzes how the politics of the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and black freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movements captured the imagination of Mennonite leaders who belonged to a church known more for rural and peaceful agrarian life than for social protest. Whether in terms of religious faith and identity, race, immigrant rights, or sexuality, the politics of belonging has historically presented both challenges and possibilities for Latino evangelicals in the religious landscapes of twentieth-century America. In Latino Mennonites, Hinojosa has interwoven church history with social history to explore dimensions of identity in Latino Mennonite communities and to create a new way of thinking about the history of American evangelicalism.
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies write by John M. Janzen. This book was released on 2021-02-28. Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community. The book chronicles the lives of twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the immediate post-colonial period in the 1960s to the present day, a period in which decolonization and development have dominated scholarly and practitioner debate. Reflecting the values and perspectives they shared with the Mennonite Central Committee and other church-sponsored organizations, the authors consider their own personal journeys and professional careers, the power of the prevailing scholarly paradigms they encountered, and the realities of post-colonial Africa. Coming initially from Anabaptist service programs, the authors ultimately made wider contributions to comparative religion, church leadership, literature, music, political science, history, anthropology, economics and banking, health and healing, public health, extension education, and community development. The personal histories and reflections of the authors provide an important glimpse into the intellectual and cultural perspectives that shaped the work of Africanist scholars and practitioners in the post-colonial period. The book reminds us that the work of every Africanist is shaped by their own life stories.
