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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Fred Kniss. Disquiet in the Land: Cultural Conflict in American Mennonite Communities. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 257. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

For plain people who fear and eschew "the world," Mennonites and Amish have received a fair share of the scholarly world's attention in the past half century. For Mennonites, much of this has come from scholars from within the tradition, especially those associated with the monumental Mennonite Encyclopedia (1955–1990) project and the Mennonite Quarterly Review. The result has been a wealth of studies that have illuminated Mennonite history, sociology, and culture. 1

Fred Kniss attempts a synthesis of this work. His argument is straightforward. Contrary to common perceptions, although pacifistic, Mennonites in the United States have since the 1870s been anything but peaceful. They have experienced dozens of quarrels over everything from fundamental doctrine to the details of plain dress. The fruit of these differences has often been schism, creating a variety of Mennonite groups all tracing their spiritual ancestry to a common source but adjusting in different ways to the modern world. . . .

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