Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER II EUROPEAN BACKGROUND, 1525-1874 -- Anabaptism and Early Migration -- The Prussian Mennonite Church -- Settlement in Russia -- Life in Russia -- Economic Development -- Education -- The Church -- CHAPTER II - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER III IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND SETTLEMENT IN KANSAS -- Causes of Immigration -- Establishing New Communities -- The Local Church -- CHAPTER III - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER IV THE LANGUAGE TRANSITION -- The Role of the German Language -- Facilitators of the Language Transition -- American Mennonites -- Western District Conference -- Sunday School and Christian Endeavor Society -- Clergy -- Education -- Periodicals -- Evidence of Transition -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER IV - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER V THE AMERICANIZATION OF MENNONITE EDUCATION -- The Immigrant School -- Mennonite Parochial Schools -- The Americanization of Mennonite Schools -- The Response of the Church to Public Schools -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER V - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER VI THE IMPACT OF AMERICAN REVIVALISM, MODERNISM, AND SECULARISM -- American Revivalism -- Protracted Meetings -- Prohibition -- Church Schisms -- Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy -- Secularism -- Nonresistance -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER VI - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER VII THE AMERICANIZATION OF CHURCH CUSTOMS -- Ordinances -- The Clerical Transition -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER VII - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER VIII THE FINE ARTS: MENNONITE ARCHITECTURE AND MUSIC -- Church Architecture -- Church Music -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER VIII - ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER IX - ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

The purpose of this study, first published in 1990, is to investigate the Americanization of an immigrant church in rural North America. The study focuses on General Conference Mennonites who came from Russia and east Europe to settle in central Kansas in 1874. The Americanization of a Rural Immigrant Church will be of interest to students of American and rural history.

"This book is a religious survey of two Wisconsin counties largely settled by new Americans. Its purpose is to show the sort of problems that arise when Europeans settle on our soil and to point out the responsibility of the rural church to help Americanize these new-comers. The two counties studied in this book are Sheboygan and Price, Wisconsin."--Introduction.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

This new volume of original essays focuses on the presence of European ethnic culture in American society since 1830. Among the topics explored in Immigrant America are the alienation and assimilation of immigrants; the immigrant home and family as a haven of ethnicity; religion, education and employment as agents of acculturation; and the contours of ethnic community in American society.

Perhaps the most inclusive, sweeping, and insightful history ever written about the North American Mennonite saga. Both authors are eminent historians. Royden Loewen is Professor of History, with a chair in Mennonite Studies, at the University of Winnipeg. Steven M. Nolt is Professor of History at Goshen (IN) College. Both authors of this book bring to the task the insights of "social history." As such, they focus on people in many geographical environments rather than on institutional development and theological controversy. Readable, understandable, and incisive. Appeals to all ages and all groups.

Pilgrims in Lotus Land explores the remarkable growth of evangelicalism in an intensely secular province during the twentieth century. Robert Burkinshaw explains why evangelicalism held such appeal, paying particular attention to the distinctive character