Advance Comment
COLONIAL GERMANTOWN MENNONITES

"Part synthesis of primary and secondary sources, part walking-tour pamphlet, Colonial Germantown Mennonites can also be read in the context of current discussions of immigration and religious plurality. I found the seventeenth-century materials particularly fascinating. But on a pleasant day, walking these twenty-first^t-century streets to see these eighteenth-century sites would yield even more resonances."
—Joyce Munro, Eastern University and Author

"This book evokes a sense of sacred space for a time when America was young. In the context of Quaker hospitality one observes the colonial beginnings of Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren. An urge will well up in the reader of this slender, well-illustrated volume to include on one's next trip East a walking tour of this enchanting, historic village."
—Robert Kreider, Educator and Historian

"Colonial Philadelphia, a major seedbed of American political and economic life, was also a seedbed of American religious life. Here Quakers disdained military theocratic rule, German sectarians held that religious freedom could flourish only without a designated official religion, and denominational diversity had its beginning. This volume introduces the role of Germantown Mennonites in this formative epoch."
—John A. Lapp, Executive Secretary Emeritus, Mennonite Central committee; Coordinator, Global Mennonite History Project of Mennonite World Conference

"The authors offer vivid glimpses into a time in which newcomers to Pennsylvania holding various religious convictions sought to live their faith in harmony not only among themselves but also with Native Americans. Amid today’s religious fragmentation, this glimpse is refreshing—and exemplifies the possibility of holding unwavering convictions yet living in peace amid differences.
—Susan Biesecker-Mast, Professor of Communication; and Chair; Communication and Theatre Department, Bluffton University

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