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)

Crossing The Divide

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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Mennonite Brethren Mennonite Christian theology Christian mission Ethnicity Sociology Institutional history History Mennonite Brethren Church Language

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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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Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Copyright Date
2001

Classifications

Library of Congress
BX8129.M3735 C24 2001

The Physical Object

Format
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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OL17370240W

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