Changing Mentalities: Inter-Relationships between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia, Walter Sawatsky

[Changing Mentalities: Inter-Relationships between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia, Walter Sawatsky. Анализ изменений религиозных менталитетов меннонитов и славянских евангельских общин в Сибири и Центральной Азии в XX веке. Исследует региональные различия, влияние советской эпохи] Changing Mentalities: Inter-Relationships between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia Walter Sawatsky, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana This paper draws attention to mentalities that change over time. It is an effort to point out how much the dramatic history of the Soviet Union in the twentieth century has left behind a legacy that affects thinking. Yet throughout the Soviet era (as well as before and since) regional contexts dif…

[Changing Mentalities: Inter-Relationships between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia, Walter Sawatsky. Анализ изменений религиозных менталитетов меннонитов и славянских евангельских общин в Сибири и Центральной Азии в XX веке. Исследует региональные различия, влияние советской эпохи] Journal of Mennonite Studies 316 of these religious groups in Novo Rossiia (New Russia as it was known, now as southeastern Ukraine) was affected by specific types of state administrative structures, and by linkages to western Europe which differed when such religious groups later settled in western Siberia. The examples of difference are too many to list here, but the Mennonite reader may think of the differences in way of life, religious practices and ties to neighboring ethnic g…