Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"

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Autor(a) principal: W. Goossen, Benjamin
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Almanack (Guarulhos)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/article/view/13185
Resumo: This article uses the example of Mennonite nation-building in Paraguay during the 1920s and 1930s to argue that state formation is not inherently modernist. Tracing nineteenth and early twentieth-century discourses of Mennonite colonies in Imperial Russia, Canada and elsewhere as a state "within a state", the essay advocates a reevaluation of theories of modern statehood advanced by thinkers like James C. Scott and Ernest Gellner. As conservative, pacifist Mennonites traveled from North America to the Paraguayan Chaco to escape the pressures of assimilation in democratic society, their migration paved the way for coreligionists fleeing persecution in the Soviet Union to join in a formation of a rural, autonomus "Mennonite state" that was organized internationally, characterized by deep religious observance, and conceived in opposition to high modernist projects.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
title Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
spellingShingle Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
W. Goossen, Benjamin
State-building
nationalism
Mennonites
title_short Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
title_full Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
title_fullStr Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
title_full_unstemmed Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
title_sort Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's "Mennonite State"
author W. Goossen, Benjamin
author_facet W. Goossen, Benjamin
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv W. Goossen, Benjamin
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv State-building
nationalism
Mennonites
topic State-building
nationalism
Mennonites
description This article uses the example of Mennonite nation-building in Paraguay during the 1920s and 1930s to argue that state formation is not inherently modernist. Tracing nineteenth and early twentieth-century discourses of Mennonite colonies in Imperial Russia, Canada and elsewhere as a state "within a state", the essay advocates a reevaluation of theories of modern statehood advanced by thinkers like James C. Scott and Ernest Gellner. As conservative, pacifist Mennonites traveled from North America to the Paraguayan Chaco to escape the pressures of assimilation in democratic society, their migration paved the way for coreligionists fleeing persecution in the Soviet Union to join in a formation of a rural, autonomus "Mennonite state" that was organized internationally, characterized by deep religious observance, and conceived in opposition to high modernist projects.
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