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California Mennonites, we learn, absorbed the energy of the place and shaped it into a religious fervency not seen anywhere else. Froese’s book is, first and foremost, a rigorously researched local history that concentrates on the Mennonite experience in California.
1 sty 2014 · In California Mennonites, Brian Froese relies on archival church records to examine the Mennonite experience in the Golden State, from the nineteenth-century migrants who came in search of...
19 lut 2015 · Table of Contents. 1. Going to California: The Mennonite Migration. 2. Alone in the Garden: Boosters, Migrants, and Refugees. 3. Urban Dystopia and Divine Nature: The Early Mennonite Colonies.
In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, Brian Froese introduces readers for the first time to the California Mennonite experience. Although a few Mennonites did dig for gold in the 1850s, the real story of Mennonites in California begins in the 1890s with westward migrations for fertile soil and healthy sunshine.
Through their experiences of religious diversity, changing demographics, and war, California Mennonites have wrestled with complicated questions of what it means to be American, Mennonite, and modern. This book—the first of its kind—will appeal to historians and religious studies scholars alike.
1 mar 2016 · What happens historically when you take a conservative, tradition-bound group such as American Mennonites and set them in the urbane, secular sophistication of modern California? The result, he demonstrates, is a fascinating process of religious-cultural change.
Through their experiences of religious diversity, changing demographics, and war, California Mennonites have wrestled with complicated questions of what it means to be American, Mennonite,...
