Vol. 27 (2009)

Published: 2011-03-17

Title Page

Title
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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgements

The Editors
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Contents

Content
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Foreword

Foreword

Royden Loewen

7-10
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Articles

Wealth and Poverty in the Mennonite Experience: Dilemmas and Challenges

James Urry

11-40
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Why the Rich Got Mennonite: Church Membership, Status and Wealth in Golden Age Amsterdam

Mary S. Sprunger

41-59
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Dangers of Superabundance: Pieter Pietersz, Mennonites, and Greed during the Dutch Golden Age

Karl Koop

61-74
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Between Frugality and Civility: Dutch Mennonites and Their Taste for the ‘World of Art’ in the Eighteenth Century

Yme Kuiper, Harm Nijboer

75-92
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Wealth and Power in the Vistula River Mennonite Community, 1772-1914

Mark Jantzen

93-107
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Johann Cornies, Money-Lending, and Modernization in the Molochna Mennonite Settlement, 1820s-1840s

John R. Staples

109-127
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‘We Are Aware of Our Contradictions:’ Russlaender Mennonite Narratives of Loss and the Reconstruction of Peoplehood, 1914-1923

Reina C. Neufeldt

129-154
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Church and Business in Paraguay: An Ecclesiological Paradigm and a Business Company

Werner Franz

155-165
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Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible?

Travis Kroeker

167-178
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The North End Lives: A Journey Through Poverty Terrain in Hamilton, Ontario

Hugo Neufeld

179-189
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Ministers of Commerce: How Mennonites in Business Create Economic Hope for the Poor

Wally Kroeker

191-199
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Research Papers

Speaking Redemption: Narrative Voice in David Elias’s Sunday Afternoon

Edna A. Froese

201-212
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‘She Sleeps with Her Girlfriend’: A Twentieth Century Excommunication

Priscilla Beth Reimer

213-227
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Under the Bed and Behind the Barn: Musical Secrets and Familial Vitality in Mennonite Mexico

Judith Klassen

229-247
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Book Reviews

The Retreat

Catherine Hunter

249-251
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Somewhere Else

Heather Milne

251-252
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Lost Sons

Armin Wiebe

252-255
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Fear of Landing

Armin Wiebe

252-255
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Waiting for Elvis

Edna Froese

255-257
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Jewell Adventure

Conrad Dueck

257-258
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Fear Not

Carla Funk

258-260
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The Coat is Thin

Ann Hostetler

261-262
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Widows of Hamilton House

Sarah Klassen

262-264
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When War Came to Kleindarp and more Kleindarp Stories

Margaret Loewen Reimer

264-266
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Renovating Heaven

Mary Ann Loewen

266-268
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The Flying Troutmans

Tom Penner

268-269
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Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada

Hans Werner

270-271
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A Thousand and One Egyptian Nights, An American Christian’s Life Among Muslims

David W. Shenk

271-273
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Mennonite Women in Canada: A History

Rachel Waltner Goossen

273-275
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We Bear the Loss Together: A History of the Mennonite Aid Union

Lucille Marr

275-276
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Outside the World: Cohesion and Deviation among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia

Patricia Harms

276-278
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Road Signs for the Journey: A Profile of Mennonite Church USA

Fred Kniss

278-279
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Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity

C. Arnold Snyder

280-281
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Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World

Pamela E. Klassen

281-283
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Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities

Jonathan Wagner

283-285
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Nemetskie kolonii v Sibiri: Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie aspekt (German Colonies in Siberia: Socio-economic Aspects)

Harvey Dyck

285-286
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The Amish and the Media

Gerald J. Mast

287-288
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Authors' Profiles

Author's Profiles

none none

289-291
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Notices

Notices

none none

292-297
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