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FormatBook Chapter
Author, AnalyticHostetler, John A.
Title, AnalyticThe Plain People: Historical and Modern Perspectives
Author, MonographicTrommler, Frank//McVeigh, Joseph
Title, MonographicAmerica and the Germans
Place of PublicationPhiladelphia
PublisherUniv. of Pennsylvania Press
Date of Publication1985
Volume ID1
Location in Work106-117
AbstractEssay on the mennonites. Over the past three centuries the plain people, like other ethnic groups, have been suspended between two opposing forces: the elements in the nation-state that would eliminate ethnicity from the face of the earth and those who regard ethnicity as a natural and necessary extension of the affective familial bonds that integrate human activities. Caught between these forces, the plain people have sometimes prospered and sometimes suffered for their faith
Call NumberMKI/SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985
MKI TermsMennonites/ Ethnicity/ Assimilation/ Religion/ Social aspects