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Chosen Nation

Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era

By: Benjamin W. Goossen

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Chosen Nation

Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era

By: Benjamin W. Goossen

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.

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Chosen Nation

Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era

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A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., with Some of His Professional and Miscellaneous Writings

By: Benjamin Robbins Curtis

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A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., with Some of His Professional and Miscellaneous Writings

By: Benjamin Robbins Curtis

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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MEMOIR OF THE REV BENJAMIN ALL

By: Benjamin 1789-1829 Allen,Thomas G. Allen,Gregory T. (Gregory Townsend) 1. Bedell

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By: Benjamin 1789-1829 Allen,Thomas G. Allen,Gregory T. (Gregory Townsend) 1. Bedell

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., with Some of His Professional and Miscellaneous Writings

A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., with Some of His Professional and Miscellaneous Writings

MEMOIR OF THE REV BENJAMIN ALL

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