@phdthesis{384,
  keywords = {Mennonites, Ethnic identity, German, Cultural identity, Acculturation, Kitchener, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Mennonite Central Committee, Inter-Mennonite Conference, Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec, Conference of United Mennonite Churches, Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada, Hmong Christian Church, Waterloo Mennonite Church, Mount Zion Mennonite Church  Berlin (Ontario), Weber Street Mennonite Church  Kitchener, 19th century, 20th century},
  author = {Daphne Winland},
  title = {A plea for peoplehood: religious and ethnic identity, continuity, and change among the Mennonites of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario},
  abstract = {An analysis of the ethnic identity of the Mennonites, with particular reference to the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Topics include religious divisions, the amalgamation of church conferences, and the sponsoring and conversion of Southeast Asian refugees to the Mennonite faith. The author who attended eleven churches in the Kitchener- Waterloo over a three-year period, concludes that group identity is a "dialectical process involving the simultaneous expression of numerous and often seemingly conflicting expressions of identity."},
  year = {1989},
  edition = {Ph.D.},
  number = {Dissertation/Thesis},
  pages = {312 p. bibl., tables+},
  publisher = {York University (Department of Sociology), Toronto, Ontario},
  language = {English},
}