03304nam 2200721Ia 450 991015475700332120200520144314.09780889207943088920794110.51644/9780889207943(CKB)2430000000002492(EBL)685648(OCoLC)753479504(SSID)ssj0000381888(PQKBManifestationID)12103771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000381888(PQKBWorkID)10391063(PQKB)10687156(MiAaPQ)EBC685648(CaPaEBR)402561(CaBNvSL)jme00326906 (MiAaPQ)EBC3246183(OCoLC)647607919(MdBmJHUP)muse48063(PPN)250535696(DE-B1597)667265(DE-B1597)9780889207943(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/h4scnz(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402561(FR-PaCSA)88899398(FRCYB88899398)88899398(Perlego)1706377(EXLCZ)99243000000000249219870508d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContinuity & change among Canadian Mennonite Brethren /Peter M. Hamm1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press19871 online resource (295 p.)Religion and identity ;3Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.--McMaster University, 1978).9780889201897 0889201897 Includes bibliography and index.CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; I Sectarianism; II Religious Continuity and Change; III The Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement; IV Mennonite Brethren Beginnings; V Delineating Boundaries; VI Enhancing Cohesion; VII Consolidating Identities; VIII Facilitating Socialization; IX Reinforcing Integration; X Education and Relativization; XI Urbanization and Fragility Hazards; XII Occupational Change and Reorientation; XIII Economic Ascendancy and Vertical Mobility; XIV Assimilation and Identity Crisis; XV Conclusion: Sectarian Persistence; Bibliography; IndexMore than 450 years after their birth in the Anabaptist movement, 125 years after their secession from Russian Mennonitism, and 60 years after their immigration to Canada, the Mennonite Brethren exhibit specific and measurable signs of sectarian viability and religious vitality. To explain the persistence of the sect, Hamm analyses the process of sacralization within the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Church - which ""safeguards identity, a system of meaning, or a definition of reality"" - and the process of secularization - which ""erodes boundaries, dislodges stable structures, and destroysReligion and identity ;3.MennonitesCanadaCanadaChurch historyMennonites200Hamm Peter M1756828MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154757003321Continuity & change among Canadian Mennonite Brethren4194350UNINA