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Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905-1939 = = Devenir des mennonites a l'echelle mondiale: Le politique de la catholicite et de la memoire dans une rencontre missionnaire au Congo belge, 1905-1939.

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Title/Author:	Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905-1939 =/
Reminder of title:	Devenir des mennonites a l'echelle mondiale: Le politique de la catholicite et de la memoire dans une rencontre missionnaire au Congo belge, 1905-1939.
Author:	Fast, Anicka Ruth.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	680 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04A.
Subject:	African history. -
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ISBN:	9798672160689

Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905-1939 = = Devenir des mennonites a l'echelle mondiale: Le politique de la catholicite et de la memoire dans une rencontre missionnaire au Congo belge, 1905-1939.
Fast, Anicka Ruth.

Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905-1939 =Devenir des mennonites a l'echelle mondiale: Le politique de la catholicite et de la memoire dans une rencontre missionnaire au Congo belge, 1905-1939. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 680 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2020.

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This dissertation examines the first three decades of a missionary encounter that began under the auspices of the Congo Inland Mission (CIM - later renamed as Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission [AIMM]) in Belgian Congo. As Africans, North Americans, and Europeans entered into relationship with each other through mission, they developed an identity as global Mennonites. They began to embrace a catholic ecclesial imagination - that is, a commitment to shared membership within the church as a political body capable of transcending competing claims of race, ethnicity, gender, or nation-state. Using both an ecclesiological lens of analysis and a global history framework, this dissertation traces the ways in which ecclesial institutions, practices, discourses, and performances functioned to support or undermine a social imagination that embraced expatriate missionaries and local believers within a single church, in both its local/congregational and trans-local manifestations.During the period covered by the dissertation, expatriate and Congolese Mennonites struggled to define what the church was, and to determine who could participate in it and how. Factors that helped to promote a shared ecclesial imagination among Congolese and expatriate believers included an inter-denominational vision, faith mission principles and practices, Pentecostal revivalism, a Mennonite congregational polity, shared experiences of work and worship, and friendships that crossed boundaries of race and gender. However, CIM missionaries' assertions of ethnic Mennonite control over mission strategy and structure, and their complicity with colonial labor exploitation, promoted a two-tiered understanding of the church that entrenched racial segregation and squelched the aspirations of white missionary women and Congolese evangelists. An ecclesiological lens of analysis thus offers new insights into the relationship between missions and colonial regimes, into the role of mission in American Mennonite denominational formation, and into the interactions among gender, race, and ethnicity in mission.The dissertation traces the contested memories of early CIM "pioneers," such as Alma Doering, Aaron and Ernestina Janzen, and L.B. and Rose Haigh, and retrieves the missional agency of the many Congolese Mennonites who worked alongside them. In this way, it both uncovers the struggles for catholicity that shaped the missionary encounter at its inception, and calls attention to the ways in which such struggles continue to play out on the terrain of memory and knowledge production, coming to light through the competing efforts and uneven ability of Congolese and North American Mennonites to tell stories about their shared past. The historical narrative at the core of the dissertation thus serves as a case study for a broader exploration of theological and historiographical themes of memory and catholicity in relation to mission. The dissertation develops an ecclesiological framework for the study of the missionary encounter in which an explicit commitment to catholicity guides the task of writing world Christian history. It identifies ways in which such an ecclesiological mode of remembering can contribute to greater unity and catholicity within the global church.

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African history.
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Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905-1939 = = Devenir des mennonites a l'echelle mondiale: Le politique de la catholicite et de la memoire dans une rencontre missionnaire au Congo belge, 1905-1939.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the first three decades of a missionary encounter that began under the auspices of the Congo Inland Mission (CIM - later renamed as Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission [AIMM]) in Belgian Congo. As Africans, North Americans, and Europeans entered into relationship with each other through mission, they developed an identity as global Mennonites. They began to embrace a catholic ecclesial imagination - that is, a commitment to shared membership within the church as a political body capable of transcending competing claims of race, ethnicity, gender, or nation-state. Using both an ecclesiological lens of analysis and a global history framework, this dissertation traces the ways in which ecclesial institutions, practices, discourses, and performances functioned to support or undermine a social imagination that embraced expatriate missionaries and local believers within a single church, in both its local/congregational and trans-local manifestations.During the period covered by the dissertation, expatriate and Congolese Mennonites struggled to define what the church was, and to determine who could participate in it and how. Factors that helped to promote a shared ecclesial imagination among Congolese and expatriate believers included an inter-denominational vision, faith mission principles and practices, Pentecostal revivalism, a Mennonite congregational polity, shared experiences of work and worship, and friendships that crossed boundaries of race and gender. However, CIM missionaries' assertions of ethnic Mennonite control over mission strategy and structure, and their complicity with colonial labor exploitation, promoted a two-tiered understanding of the church that entrenched racial segregation and squelched the aspirations of white missionary women and Congolese evangelists. An ecclesiological lens of analysis thus offers new insights into the relationship between missions and colonial regimes, into the role of mission in American Mennonite denominational formation, and into the interactions among gender, race, and ethnicity in mission.The dissertation traces the contested memories of early CIM "pioneers," such as Alma Doering, Aaron and Ernestina Janzen, and L.B. and Rose Haigh, and retrieves the missional agency of the many Congolese Mennonites who worked alongside them. In this way, it both uncovers the struggles for catholicity that shaped the missionary encounter at its inception, and calls attention to the ways in which such struggles continue to play out on the terrain of memory and knowledge production, coming to light through the competing efforts and uneven ability of Congolese and North American Mennonites to tell stories about their shared past. The historical narrative at the core of the dissertation thus serves as a case study for a broader exploration of theological and historiographical themes of memory and catholicity in relation to mission. The dissertation develops an ecclesiological framework for the study of the missionary encounter in which an explicit commitment to catholicity guides the task of writing world Christian history. It identifies ways in which such an ecclesiological mode of remembering can contribute to greater unity and catholicity within the global church.
520 $a Cette these examine les trois premieres decennies d'une rencontre missionnaire qui a debute au Congo belge sous les auspices de la Congo Inland Mission (CIM - rebaptisee plus tard Mission Inter-Mennonite d'Afrique [AIMM]) . Alors que des Africains, des Nord-Americains et des Europeens entraient en relation les uns avec les autres par le canal de la mission, ils ont developpe une identite en tant que mennonites mondiaux. Ils ont commence a epouser un imaginaire ecclesial catholique, c'est-a-dire un engagement a faire partie d'une meme Eglise et de la comprendre comme etant un corps politique capable de transcender les revendications concurrentes de la race, de l'ethnicite, du sexe ou de l'Etat-nation. En utilisant a la fois une analyse ecclesiologique et un cadre historique global, cette these retrace la maniere dont les institutions, les pratiques, les discours et les performances ecclesiales ont fonctionne pour soutenir ou miner un imaginaire social qui englobait les missionnaires expatries et les croyants locaux au sein d'une seule Eglise, dans ses manifestations locales et trans-locales.Pendant la periode couverte par la these, les mennonites expatries et congolais se sont efforces de definir ce qu'etait cette Eglise, et de determiner qui pouvait y participer et comment. Les facteurs qui ont contribue a promouvoir un imaginaire ecclesial commun parmi les croyants congolais et expatries comprenaient une vision interdenominationnelle, des principes et des pratiques des missions fondees sur la foi (les « faith mission »), un reveil pentecotiste, une politique congregationaliste mennonite, des experiences partagees de travail et de culte, et des amities qui depassaient les frontieres de la race et du genre. Cependant, quand les missionnaires de la CIM ont affirme le controle des mennonites ethniques sur la strategie et la structure de la mission, ou lorsqu'ils etaient complices d'une exploitation coloniale du travail, cela a favorise une comprehension a deux niveaux de l'Eglise, enracinant ainsi la segregation raciale et etouffant les aspirations des femmes missionnaires blanches et des evangelistes congolais. L'analyse sous l'angle ecclesiologique offre ainsi de nouvelles perspectives sur la relation entre les missions et les regimes coloniaux, sur le role de la mission dans la formation des denominations mennonites americains et sur les interactions entre le genre, la race et l'ethnicite dans la mission.La these retrace les souvenirs contestes des premiers « pionniers » de la CIM, tels qu'Alma Doering, Aaron et Ernestina Janzen, et L.B. et Rose Haigh, et restitue l'agence missionnaire des nombreux mennonites congolais qui ont travaille a leurs cotes. De cette maniere, il met en lumiere les luttes pour la catholicite qui ont faconne la rencontre missionnaire a ses debuts, et attire l'attention sur la maniere dont ces luttes continuent a se derouler sur le terrain de la memoire et de la production de connaissances, mises en lumiere par les efforts concurrents et la capacite inegale des mennonites congolais et nord-americains a relater des recits de leur passe commun. Le recit historique au coeur de la these sert donc d'etude de cas pour une exploration plus large des themes theologiques et historiographiques de la memoire et de la catholicite en relation avec la mission. La these developpe un cadre ecclesiologique pour l'etude de la rencontre missionnaire dans lequel un engagement explicite envers la catholicite guide la tache d'ecrire l'histoire chretienne mondiale. Elle identifie les moyens par lesquels un tel mode de memoire ecclesiologique peut contribuer a une plus grande unite et catholicite au sein de l'eglise mondiale.
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