Strangers at Home. Amish and Mennonite Women in History Equal parts sociology, religious history, and gender studies, the book explores the changing roles.
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As people who care about peace and social justice, what responsibility do Mennonite and other members of the Anabaptist community have to right the wrongs of history?
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This seems like a daunting even impossible goal to accomplish in light of over years of injustice and a global economic system that continues to favor the interests of the powerful few at the expense of millions. But I think it is important to think about what it would look like to put these convictions into practice. Education and consciousness-raising are clearly two of the best places to start.
The Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition has already done much work in this regard. The course provides opportunities for participants to learn from members of the Potawatomi community about their history and the challenges they continue to face. What would justice look like for Native American communities today and how can Mennonites best work in solidarity with them to achieve it? Would justice involve returning land , as the Jesuit order recently did to the Rosebud Sioux?
Should Mennonite Church USA or member conferences and congregations establish a tithe paid to descendants of indigenous communities expelled from their lands? Or would dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery require a more radical restructuring of society and the legal, economic, and philosophical frameworks that underpin it? But the examples of people like Adam Friesen Miller and his students give me hope that God is at work in the relationships that Mennonites are building with Native American brothers and sisters, and that justice is possible.
In October , I teased a multi-part series sharing some of my research into Anabaptist engagement with the late twentieth century charismatic renewal movement.
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In that post, I pointed to the dearth of writing on Anabaptist-charismatic influence and to the larger historiographical problem represented by that silence. I want to share at least three reasons why I think this research matters for scholars of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The last two decades have seen growing rates of participation by Anabaptists in ecumenical dialogue, mostly through Mennonite World Conference. Yet by , engagement with religious beliefs and practices from outside the Mennonite tradition had drawn these men and women into contact with other believers.
As the historian Perry Bush has demonstrated, Mennonites engaged in ecumenical conversations before The predominantly African-American congregation at Calvary Community Church in Hampton, Virginia, are more open to charismatic expressions than some of their fellow white Mennonites. Although pockets of resistance to charismatic beliefs and practices continued to exist within some segments of the Mennonite denominations and the Brethren in Christ Church into the s and beyond, by the last decades of the twentieth century most denominational hierarchies relaxed their older, outright opposition to the movement.
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A sequel comes this summer: The conference theme invites us to consider how Anabaptists, Mennonites, Amish, and related groups have bumped up against — and traversed — physical and figurative borders, right up to the present day. Crossing the Line is a conference about women from Anabaptist traditions.
In , a landmark scholarly conference titled The Quiet in the Land? Hosted at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, this early collaborative effort among Mennonite scholars featured artistic performances, especially drama, music and poetry. At the conclusion of the conference, participants were enthusiastic about the variety of methodological and interdisciplinary approaches on display, but noted that a future conference would need to cast a more inclusive net. Many called for greater attention to international stories and viewpoints, pointing out that a critical mass of individuals in Anabaptist traditions lived outside of U.
Strangers at Home came out of a landmark conference on Anabaptist women. We have not been concerned with boundaries. Intensifying an international reach this time around, the June conference will focus on boundaries and border-crossings. Women from the Global South will participate. Students and scholars from a dozen countries are among the panelists and plenary speakers.
Each day, an invited scholar will address implications of border- and boundary-crossings. Hasia Diner, New York University Professor of History, will speak on gender systems in ethno-religious immigrant communities. Cynthia Peacock of India, affiliated with Mennonite Central Committee for nearly four decades and a representative for Mennonite World Conference, plans to address church leadership in South Asia.
Academic presentations on a wide array of topics, as well as an art exhibit, poetry readings, original dramatic performance, modern dance and ballet performances, and Shendandoah Valley cultural tours round out the conference offerings. Persons who are deeply versed in this subject may quibble with one or another chapter. But for someone like myself - a man and a Catholic, for whom the world of Mennonite women is terra incognita - "Strangers at Home" is a fine introduction to that world.
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