In Search Of Promised Lands: A Religious History Of Mennonites In Ontario (studies Of Anabaptist And Mennonite History)

Synopsis

In Search Of Promised Lands Describes The Emergence And Evolution Of Today'bbs 30-plus Streams Of Ontarians Who Have Identified Themselves As Mennonite Or Amish From Their Arrival In Canada To The Last Decade. In Search Of Promised Lands Also Considers How Various Mennonite Groups Have Adapted To Or Resisted Evangelical Fundamentalism And Mainline Protestantism, And It Identifies The Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Shifts Toward Personal Salvation And Away From Submission To The Church Community.--provided By Publisher