TY - BOOK ID - 78148066 TI - Sisters PY - 2014 SN - 9004275029 9789004275027 9789004275010 9004275010 1322128081 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Mennonite women KW - Anabaptist women KW - Women in Christianity KW - Christianity KW - Christian women KW - Women, Mennonite KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78148066 AB - Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia). ER -