RELIGION / Christianity / Mennonite

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Contemporary cinema increasingly portrays believing women as active moral agents rather than passive figures confined by patriarchal or religious stereotypes. However, scholarship on religion and film has predominantly focused on male religious figures, leaving the representation of believing women comparatively underexplored, especially in films directed by women in the twenty-first century. This paper addresses th…

Reference · Wikidata

Anabaptist groups originating in Western Europe

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the Frisian cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561). Simons became a prominent leader within the wider Anabaptist movement and was a contemporary of Martin Luther (1483–1546) and Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560). Through his writings about the Reformation, Simons articulat…

Book · DOAB

Though the terms “queer” and “Mennonite” rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts these identities into conversation. In this volume, Daniel Shank Cruz brings this growing genre into a critical focus, bridging the gaps between queer theory, literary criticism, and Me…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

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