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The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Work, cooperation and solidarity are values that together that enable people to earn a living as an alternative to the exacerbated competition fostered by the capitalist model.
Luana Jamayna Gellert +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines a silence in the histories of the formation of peace and conflict studies as an academic field, focusing on the elision of a female‐identified academic: Gladdys Esther Muir. Muir occasionally appears in histories as a datapoint in peace education chronologies where she is listed as the director of the first peace studies ...
Reina C. Neufeldt
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Life Writing and Mennonite Identity - Review: Essay of Mennonite Women\u27s Memoirs
Excerpt: Rhoda Janzen’s recent success is enviable, her hefty book deal with a prominent press and the publicity that followed her first memoir the kind of triumphs to which writers often aspire.
Mock, Melanie Springer
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ABSTRACT Background Engaging diverse populations is critical for designing effective healthcare initiatives. However, strategies for recruiting participants to ensure meaningful engagement, particularly among harder‐to‐reach groups, remain underexplored.
Anna Pujadas Botey +3 more
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In the 1920s, conflict over schooling prompted the exodus of nearly 8000 Mennonites from the Canadian prairie provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to Mexico and Paraguay; this is the largest voluntary exodus of a single people group in Canadian history.
Robyn Sneath
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Book Review: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Excerpt: An honest admission: When I first saw Rhoda Janzen’s new book featured in Time magazine and in The New York Times, my initial impulse was toward envy—unadulterated, green-as-possible envy. As a fledgling writer who grew up in a close Mennonite
Mock, Melanie Springer
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'We are growing Belize': modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize [PDF]
This article addresses the entrepreneurial and organisational activities of a specific Mennonite group in Belize called the Kleine Gemeinde community of Spanish Lookout.
Boersma, F.K., Roessingh, C.H.
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GETTING YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW: Marriage, Protection, and Love without Regret in Virginia
ABSTRACT Marriage, as a topic of ethnographic and historical exploration, ties together kinship, politics, economics, and faith in complex and significant ways. In the United States, federal and state governments have used legal marriage to create insiders and outsiders along lines of “race,” sexuality, and religion.
SIOBHAN MAGEE
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Review of Lawrence Klippenstein, Peace and War, Mennonite Conscientious Objectors in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II, and other COs in Eastern Europe, Winnipeg, MB. 2017. 367pp.
Friesen, John J.
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