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- Title
Why Milking Machines?: Cohesion and Contestation of Old Colony Mennonite Tradition.
- Authors
Fast, Kerry L.
- Abstract
The article discusses social and religious differences between Old Colony Mennonite religious leaders and laypersons. The author examines such differences in Old Colony Mennonite communities on the colony of Sanibal in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, and on three colonies in Bolivia during the early 21st century. The author discusses the dynamic state of Old Colony Mennonite religious and social life as opposed to scholarly interpretations of a static condition. The article discusses anecdotes concerning the prohibition of the use of cow milking machines in Old Colony Mennonite communities, Old Colony Mennonites abiding by rulings of the so-called Lierdienst, and the social dictates contained in the sermons of Mennonite ministers known as Ooms.
- Subjects
OLD Colony Mennonites; RELIGIOUS leadership; LAYPERSONS; MENNONITES; RELIGIOUS life; CHRISTIAN sects; RELIGIOUS differences; RELIGIOUS leaders; SOCIAL interaction; MILKING machines; RELIGION; STATUS (Law); SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2013, Vol 31, p151
- ISSN
0824-5053
- Publication type
Article