Mennonite Entrepreneurs

By Robert Siemens, Redekop, Stephen C. Ainlay, et al.

Book Overview

Mennonite Entrepreneurs is a study of people who adhere to a religious-ethnic tradition that is on the periphery of the world economy and, for that matter, North American religious life. It is a study of people who have been, until recent times, somewhat on the margins of the Mennonite world itself. Mennonite Entrepreneurs traces the ways in which Anabaptist-Mennonites have interpreted the role of economic in their soecity. This interpretation of economics and economic activity has not been as uniform as either stereotype or even Mennonite self-understanding woule have it.

Part I of Mennonite Entrepreneurs frames the project by introducing the reader to Anabaptist-Mennonite culture, theology, and history. Part II is the empirical heart which takes the reader into the world and mind-set of the Mennonite entrepreneur. Part III examines the theoretical significance of this project and looks at extant theoretical treatments of Mennonite economics, beginning with Max Weber's classic treatment of them in Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, revealing the power of their insights as well as their respective misunderstandings of Mennonite life and culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868297
• ISBN13: 9780801868290
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher