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The Work of Their Hands Mennonite Women's Societies in Canada
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The Work of Their Hands Mennonite Women's Societies in Canada Softcover - 1996

by Redekop, Gloria L. Neufeld

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0889202702 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy covers; about new; 8.8 X 5.9 X 0.5 inches; 172 pages .
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  • Title The Work of Their Hands Mennonite Women's Societies in Canada
  • Author Redekop, Gloria L. Neufeld
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 172
  • Publisher Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 60520
  • ISBN 9780889202702
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian

From the publisher

Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. For women who were restricted from leadership positions within the church, these societies became the primary avenue of church involvement. Through them they contributed vast amounts of energy, time and financial resources to the mission activity of the church. The societies thus became a context in which women could speak, pray and creatively give expression to their own understanding of the biblical message.
Using primary sources such as reports, letters, minutes, etc., as well as society histories, interviews and survey data, Redekop charts the development of these societies, from the establishment of the earliest ones in the 1870s to their flowering in the fifties and sixties and their decline in the eighties and nineties.
The Work of Their Hands elucidates the context in which Mennonite women lived their identity as Christian women, one considered appropriate by themselves and the institutional church. It also shows how changes to the societies, including declining membership and a shift in their primary focus from sewing and baking to one of spiritual fellowship, reflect the changing roles of women within the church, the home and the wider society.
The Work of Their Hands is an important book in the history of Mennonite women's spirituality and will be a valuable resource for religious studies, women's studies and Canadian history.

About the author

Gloria Neufeld Redekop received her Ph.D. in Women and Religion from the University of Ottawa. She has taught in the Department of Religion at Carleton University and as an independent scholar has recently engaged in research on women and war.