Horse-And-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World, Paperback/Royden Loewen

Descriere

The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a horse-and-buggy people. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption that most people today take for granted. Loewen s subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 6, 000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 60, 000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial belt or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of horse-and-buggy Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. This equation is the genius at the heart of their world."

Despre autor

Royden Loewen

istoric canadian · n. 1954

Royden Loewen este un profesor de istorie canadian, retras din activitate, și șeful Catedrei de Studii Menonite de la Universitatea din Winnipeg. Ca un istoric proeminent în domeniul istoriei menonite, cartea sa despre comunitățile menonite 1850–1930 este o publicație de referință privind valurile de emigrare din sudul Rusiei în Canada.