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| Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren | View shopping basket | |
| by Margaret C. Reynolds | ||
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Cover... Related Items Women Cultures | Despite the great interest in "plain" Groups in recent years,
comparatively little has been written about women and the particular
role they play in preserving traditional religious and cultural values
in the modern world. In Plain Women,Margaret C. Reynolds
portrays the women of the Old Order River Brethren, a significant
branch of the Brethren in Christ located mainly in Pennsylvania.
The members of this conservative offshoot of the Brethren are often confused with the Amish because of their plain attire, but unlike the Amish, they have made some notable concessions to the modern world- including the use of automobiles, computers, and home appliances. Noting these accommodations to modern American life, Reynolds examines the ceremonies and traditions that allow the Old Order River Brethren to remain "separate" from other plain groups and from contemporary mass culture. She describes, for example, the love feast communion, a service that involves footwashing and a breadmaking ritual (one unique to the Old Order River Brethren and solely performed by women). Reynolds focuses in particular on the gendered customs of dress, hair, and domesticity that shape women's lives and, in so doing preserve the minority faith itself. Copyright 2001 Pennsylvania German Society | |
| A Declaration on Peace: In God's People the World's Renewal Has Begun | View shopping basket | |
| by Douglas Gwyn, George, Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop, and John Howard Yoder | ||
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Cover... Related Items Peace Quakers | A call from Mennonites, Quakers, Church of the Brethren, and the
Felloship of Reconciliation to all Christians to renew discussions
about peace, war, militarism, and justice. Douglas Gwyn, George
Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop, and John Howard Yoder, editors, offer an
ecumenical dialogue on the morality of war, grounded in a biblical
vision common to all Christian communions. This book declares that peacemaking is essential to Christian discipleship. It is the vocation of the church as a whole. Moving beyond the traditional debate around "pacifism," this statement seeks dialogue concerning a renewed vision of the entire purpose of God in the world. Copyright 1990. | |
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