An edition of Crossing The Divide: Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970 (2001)

Crossing The Divide

Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970

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An edition of Crossing The Divide: Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970 (2001)

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Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970

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This book describes how Canadian, and then particularly Manitoba, Mennonite Brethren went through a painful process of exchanging German for English as their primary language of religious discourse and nurture. This language transition was complicated by the nature of Mennonite identity, grounded as it is in religion as well as ethnicity. The profound interconnection of religion, language, and identity invested the course of language transition with deeply felt passion and anxiety. In the end, the tension was resolved in an altered identity with the boundary markers of language and ethnicity becoming increasingly subordinate to more purely religious considerations of Mennonite Brethren identity.

~from the Introduction

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Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg
Language
English
Pages
249

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Subjects
Mennonite Brethren, Mennonite, Christian theology, Christian mission, Ethnicity, Sociology, Institutional history, History, Mennonite Brethren Church, Language
Times
1940–1970

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Crossing The Divide: Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Contours of the Divide. Page 1 2. Prologue to Confrontation. Page 11 The Kanadier Come to the Brink of Change. Page 12 The Arrival of the Russlaender. Page 16 First Attempts to "Regulate the Situation". Page 25 3. Confrontation Engaged. Page 39 Passions are Defined. Page 39 The Committee for the German Language. Page 42 Conflict and Threatening Alienation. Page 47 Bilingualism Re-defined and Alienation Confirmed. Page 52 4. Hope, Disillusionment, and Surrender. Page 65 The Watershed Year, 1952. Page 65 Still Attempting to "Regulate the Situation". Page 72 Paying the Price of Transition. Page 79 5. Winkler Case Study: To the Brink of Schism. Page 91 Initial Accommodation and Accelerating Change. Page 92 Gathering Resistance. Page 95 Denial, Suppression, and Manipulation. Page 102 To the Brink of Schism. Page 109 6. North End-Elmwood Case Study: Resisting the Tide of Change. Page 121 The Language Issue Takes Shape. Page 122 Incremental Bilingualism. Page 128 Frustration, Alienation, and Malaise. Page 138 Staving Off Linguistic Segregation. Page 145 7. South End-Portage Avenue Case Study: From Denial to Suppression. Page 155 Tensions Defined. Page 156 Achieving the Minimum of Bilingualism. Page 166 Bilingualism Reluctantly Expanded. Page 172 Schism. Page 178 Suppression Fails Again. Page 185 8. Conclusion. Page 193 The Scope and Sequence of Mennonite Brethren Language Transition. Page 194 Factors Contributing to Language Transition. Page 201 Sources and Bibliography. Page 209 Primary Sources. Page 209 Selected General Bibliography. Page 211 Abbreviations and Endnotes. Page 215 Glossary. Page 237

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2001

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Library of Congress
BX8129.M3735 C24 2001

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Paperback
Pagination
x, 236p.
Number of pages
249
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches

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OL25949179M
Internet Archive
CrossingTheDivideOCRopt
ISBN 10
1895432286
LCCN
2002392147
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1895432286

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