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My Ancestors
Letters, diaries and documents from many centuries in the past provided the details for this enthralling read, but it is no ordinary collection of dry-as-dust facts. It is a chronicle stretching back into the Middle Ages, the history of a fascinating, influential and many-branched family with exciting life-stories to relate. The authors grandfather was the artist Johann Hinrich Geerken, and his aunt was housekeeper to Albert Einstein. This richly illustrated volume tells the tales of farmers and inventors, artists and artisans, but also of courageous women who had to see their families through difficult times alone. Among the ancestors described are the famous master tower-clock maker Johann...
The Mennonite Encyclopedia
Comprehensive reference work covering 400 years of the history, faith, life, culture of Anabaptism-Mennonitism.
Sisters
Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).
Migration and Faith
Migrations are a phenomenon that can be traced back to the beginning of the history of mankind. In modern times, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, numerous migration movements took place from Europe to North America. It was also at this time that the migrations of the Schwenkfelders, followers of Caspar Schwenckfeld?s teachings, from Silesia – then belonging to the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy – to Pennsylvania took place. On the basis of their spiritualistic theology as well as their intense, personal piety, they rejected some essential doctrines of Christianity and ecclesiastical institutions. Therefore governmental and ecclesiastical authorities meted out severe pun...
Wilhelm Mannhardt und die Anfänge der Volkskunde
Im Zentrum dieser wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Studie steht Wilhelm Mannhardt, eine Forscherpersönlichkeit des 19. Jahrhunderts, dessen frühe empirische Arbeiten für das disziplinäre Selbstverständnis der Volkskunde und ihrer Nachfolgewissenschaften einschlägig, aber kaum mehr bekannt sind. Die erneute Auseinandersetzung orientiert sich an den Ansätzen der modernen Wissenschaftsforschung, namentlich an Bruno Latour und seinem forschungspraktischen Imperativ 'science in action', um den wissenschaftlichen Alltag aus einer emischen Perspektive heraus als vergangene Vollzugswirklichkeit sichtbar zu machen und in einer dichten Beschreibung zur Darstellung zu bringen. Die Grundlage der Unte...
