Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia: Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future (Religion in the Americas Series)

Contents\n......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Preface: Arrival . . . and Departure......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Representations of the Mennonites, Amish and Hutterites......Page 23
The problem of the future......Page 28
Book overview......Page 33
Introduction......Page 36
Persecutions, migration, and settlement......Page 37
Contemporary organization of the Church of Christ......Page 46
Authoritative texts......Page 52
Identifying the Church of Christ......Page 54
Regulating the Church of Christ: the Ordninj......Page 61
Conclusion: Mennonite transformations......Page 65
Introduction......Page 68
Invitations, impositions, schisms and migrations......Page 70
Excursus: those who stayed behind......Page 83
Paraguay......Page 84
Uruguay, Brazil, and Belize......Page 86
Conclusion: the Mennonites\' place in a world of nation-states......Page 87
The founding of new colonies......Page 90
Cross-border practices......Page 96
Parish records......Page 99
Conclusion: externalization of dissent, and cross-border strategies......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
Perceptions of others......Page 106
Controlled connections......Page 107
Franz\'s balancing act......Page 117
Short-circuits......Page 121
Conclusion: isolation and the management of borders......Page 126
Introduction......Page 132
First movement: from the inside-out......Page 136
The paths to riches, poverty, suffering and enlightenment......Page 139
Second movement: from the outside-in......Page 145
The road to Damascus......Page 146
Conclusion: the reconstruction of the Christian self......Page 158
Introduction......Page 162
Becoming worldly, becoming Christian......Page 164
The Roboré project......Page 177
The Church of God......Page 179
The Beasts of the Book of Revelation......Page 182
Conclusion: alternative imaginations......Page 185
Introduction......Page 188
Translations and transgressions......Page 191
Letters to the Mennonites......Page 194
Blessing as disguise......Page 198
The uninvited host......Page 199
Encounter with Sergio......Page 201
The visitors......Page 205
Conclusion: patterns in dealing with dissent......Page 207
Conclusions......Page 210
Glossary......Page 216
References......Page 218
Index......Page 230