The Waterloo Mennonites : a community in paradox / J. Winfield Fretz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fretz, J. Winfield (Joseph Winfield), 1910-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mennonites--Ontario--Waterloo (Regional municipality).

Mennonites.

Mennonites--Ontario--Waterloo (Regional municipality)--Social conditions.

Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)--Church history.

Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press for Conrad Grebel College, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing support, the larger community including the two universities and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and public funding agencies. This book seeks to derive a clearer understanding of the sociological characteristics of a single Mennonite community, beginning with the historical and religious background of the Waterloo Mennonites, reviewing their European origins, their ethnic identification, and their immigration experience. It also examines their basic institutions: religion and church, marriage and the family, education and the school, economics and earning a living, government and how they relate to it, their use of leisure time and methods of recreation. It also looks at the way Mennonites interact with the larger society and how that society responds.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Meet the Mennonites of Waterloo

Pilgrimage and persecution in Europe

The coining of the Mennonites to Waterloo

Mennonites as community builders

Changing population patterns in Waterloo

Beyond the ethnic label

The element of faith in shaping community

Being the church and doing its work

Winning and losing church members

The family's response to change

As the school so goes the church

Farming—the sacred vocation

Occupations shape the church

Leisure shapes a way of life

Health and welfare in forms old and new

Finding in politics a way to serve

Credit, money, and mutual aid

Standing in the way of change

Mennonites as seen by their neighbours

Tomorrow turns on choices made today

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-374) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781554586868

1554586860

9780889208087

0889208085

OCLC:

243565349