Mennonites

10–12 февраля 2018 г. в Екатеринбурге прошла VI Всероссийская научно-богословская конференция «Церковь. Богословие. История», посвященная 100-летию мученической кончины святых Царственных страстотерпцев и их верных спутников. Конференция организована Екатеринбургской митрополией, Екатеринбургской духовной семинарией, Миссионерским институтом, Уральским церковно-историческим обществом. В сборник вошли доклады на различные богословские и церковно-исторические темы.
Издание предназначено богословам, историкам, филологам и всем интересующимся.

Over the last 35 years, researchers from the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the University of Kansas have been working with Mennonite communities to better understand evolutionary patterns of fission-fusion in relationship to their genetic history and population structure. In this study, short tandem repeat (STR) markers from the nonrecombining region of the Y chromosome (NRY) provided increased resolution of the molecular population structure for these groups. NRY is known to be informative for determining paternal genetic ancestral patterns in recently derived human populations. Mennonites represent a branch of the Anabaptist movement that began in northern and central Europe in the 16th century and maintain a well-documented migration and genealogical history. Provided this historical information, we investigated the genetic relationship of 15 NRY STR loci within five Mennonite communities from Kansas (Goessel, Lone Tree, Garden View, and Meridian) and Nebraska (Henderson). We sought to determine if patterns of fission/fusion along familial lines persisted with paternal genetic information as evidenced through other classical genetic polymorphisms and molecular markers. NRY haplotype information was obtained for 94 individuals, and genetic variation was analyzed and compared across the five study populations and comparative Anabaptist and European populations. NRY haplogroups were assigned using a Bayesian allele frequency approach with 14 STR loci. A total of 92 NRY haplotypes were detected, with none shared across these communities. The most prevalent NRY haplogroup was R1b, which occurred in 56% of the entire sample. Eight additional NRY haplogroups (E1b1b, G2a, I1, I2, J2a1, L, Q, and R1a) were detected in smaller frequencies. Principal component analysis of NRY data, in contrast to mitochondrial DNA data, displayed no patterns of population subdivision of these congregations into communities. These NRY genetic profiles provide additional information regarding the recent migratory history of Mennonite communities and additional evidence for fission along paternal lines after migration to the United States.

Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar el rol de las mujeres misioneras menonitas en Argentina desde su arribo al país en 1917 hasta la década de 1960.
Los menonitas forman parte de los cristianos anabaptistas surgidos en el siglo XVI, en el marco de los movimientos de reforma radical. Producto de persecuciones migraron a
Europa oriental y Estados Unidos. Desde este último país y en el marco de un proceso de renovación de la Mennonite Church (MC), se dio origen a la misión en Argentina.
Utilizando diversas fuentes de archivo: diarios personales, cartas, publicaciones, informes administrativos, buscamos reconstruir el papel, muchas veces invisibilizado, de las mujeres en los emprendimientos misioneros. De este modo buscamos contribuir no solamente aun mayor conocimiento de los procesos de misionalización, sino también al debate entorno a las concepciones y prácticas de género en el contexto del
cristianismo de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
Palabras clave: menonitas, mujeres, misión, Argentina.

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the role of mennonite missionary women in Argentina since their arrival to the country in 1917 until the 1960s. Mennonites are part of the Anabaptist Christians emerged in the sixteenth century, under the radical reform movements. Due to persecutions they migrated to Easter Europe and the United States. From the latter and within the context of a renewal process of the Mennonite Church (MC), it gave rise to the Argentinean mission. Using different sources: diaries, letters, publications, administrative reports, we seek to reconstruct the role, often made invisible, of women in the missionary enterprise. In this way, not only we seek to
contribute to a better understanding of the missionalization process but also, to the debate about the ideas and practices of gender in the context of Christianity in the first half of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Mennonite, women, mission, Argentina.

This is a commissioned essay by Mennonite historians John Roth and Steve Nolt for a special issue of the Missionary Church historical journal, Reflections, for which I serve as editor in chief. The issue is devoted to the five traditions of the Missionary Church: Anabaptism, Pietism, Wesleyanism, Keswikianism, and evangelicalism.