Academics and non-academics alike have been intrigued by conservative Protestant groups
that thrive in secular social and institutional contexts. This book offers an ethnographic study …

Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of
thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to …

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural
transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed …

" Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of
immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and …

Although contemporary studies of sexual violence against women are becoming more
prevalent, until recently, historians have given sUght treatment to the topic of rape. Even less …

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life
from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to …

Perhaps the most inclusive, sweeping, and insightful history ever written about the North
American Mennonite saga. Both authors are eminent historians. Royden Loewen is …

Rund zwölf Millionen Deutsche verloren nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ihr Heim in Mittel-und
Osteuropa. Der größte Teil davon kam ins besetzte Deutschland. Meist bleibt in Forschung …

Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and
cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the …

As one of the first studies of its kind, this book brings together the personal, alongside
complex theoretical concepts, in order to explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and …