LEADER 04291oam 22005294a 450 001 9910524902603321 005 20210915042331.0 010 $a1-4214-1513-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000307879 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318858 035 $a(OCoLC)899272746 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37316 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000307879 100 $a20140620d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCalifornia Mennonites$fBrian Froese 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (365 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aYoung Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies 311 $a1-4214-1512-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGoing to California: the Mennonite migration -- Alone in the garden: boosters, migrants, and refugees -- Urban dystopia and divine nature: the early Mennonite colonies -- Outsiders from within: defining California Mennonite identity -- New neighbors: confronting racial and religious pluralism -- From sewing circles to missionary societies: the public roles of women in the church -- Peaceful patriots: California Mennonites during World War II -- Socially active Mennonitism and mental health: the origins of Kings View Homes -- Feeding the hungry: a story of piety and professionalization -- Protect and assimilate: evangelical education in California -- Labor tensions: Mennonite growers, the UFW, and the farm labor problem -- From digging gold to saving souls: the transformation of California Mennonite identity -- Epilogue. a new breed of Mennonites. 330 $a"Books geographically focused on the midwestern and eastern states dominate the study of Mennonites in America. The intriguing history of Mennonites in the American West remains untold. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, Brian Froese introduces readers for the first time to the California Mennonite experience. Although a few Mennonites did dig for gold in the 1850s, the real story of Mennonites in California begins in the 1890s with westward migrations for fertile soil and healthy sunshine. By the mid-twentieth century, the Mennonite story in California had developed into an interesting tale of religious conservatives--traditional agrarians--finding their way in an increasingly urban and religiously pluralistic California. Some California Mennonites negotiated new identities by endorsing conservative evangelicalism; some found them in reclamations of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Still other Mennonites found meaningful religious experience by engaging in social action and justice even when these actions appeared in "secular" forms. These emerging identities--Evangelical, Anabaptist, and secular--covered a broad spectrum, yet represented a selective retaining and discarding of Mennonite religious practices and expressions. From Digging Gold to Saving Souls touches on such topics as migration, pluralism, race, gender, pacifism, institutional construction, education, and labor conflict, all of which defined the experience of Mennonites of California. Brian Froese shows how this experience was a rich, complex, and deliberate move into modern society. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, he introduces readers to a dynamic people who did not simply become modern, but who chose to modernize on their own terms"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION / Christianity / Mennonite$2bisacsh 606 $aMennonites$zCalifornia$xHistory 607 $aCalifornia$xChurch history 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHISTORY / Social History. 615 0$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. 615 0$aRELIGION / Christianity / Mennonite. 615 0$aMennonites$xHistory. 676 $a289.7/794 686 $aREL043000$aSOC026000$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aFroese$b Brian$f1969-$01104935 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524902603321 996 $aCalifornia Mennonites$92627780 997 $aUNINA