Mennonites in Canada

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture/Seminar) This course will survey major developments in Canadian Mennonite communities from 1786 to the present. It will trace the following themes: the Swiss American and Russian roots of Canadian Mennonites; community formation in Ontario and Western Canada; Anabaptism in every day life (especially the way it was played out in the family); theological developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the survival of Mennonite faith distinctives in the urban and socially-integrated Canadian society since World War II. Special emphasis will be placed on establishing the unique features of Canadian Mennonite experience. Cross-listed: MENN-3541(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and MENN-3541.