Sisters : Myth and Reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind Women, Ca 1525-1900 (Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture)

Visser, P. (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2014/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004275010
• DDC分類 284.3082

Full Description

Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).

Contents

Contributors include: Mirjam de Baar, Martina Bick, Marian Blok, Michael Driedger, Nicole Grochowina, Linda A. Huebert Hecht, Mark Jantzen, Marcel Kremer, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Lucinda Martin, Mary S. Sprunger, John Staples, Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, Anna Voolstra, and Gary K. Waite