Chosen Nation : : Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era / / Benjamin Goossen.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 halftones. 5 line illus. 1 table. 4 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Becoming German. The Geography of Collectivism
  • Chapter 2. Forging History. Anabaptism and the Kulturkampf
  • Chapter 3. Raising the Faith. Family, Gender, and Religious Indifference
  • Chapter 4. World War, World Confession. International Violence and Mennonite Globalization
  • Chapter 5. The Facial Church. Nazis, Anti-Semitism, and the Science of Blood
  • Chapter 6. Fatherland. War and Genocide in the Mennonite East
  • Chapter 7. Mennonite Nationalism. Postwar Aid and the Politics of Repatriation
  • Conclusion
  • Archival Sources
  • Notes
  • Index