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Martyrs Mirror
A Social History
David L. Weaver-Zercher combines the fascinating history of Martyrs Mirror with a detailed analysis of Anabaptist life, religion, and martyrdom. He traces the publication, use, and dissemination of this key martyrology across nearly four centuries and explains why it holds sacred status in contemporary Amish and Mennonite households. Even today, the words and deeds of these martyred Christians are referenced in sermons, Sunday school lessons, and history books.
Weaver-Zercher argues that Martyrs Mirror was designed to teach believers how to live a proper Christian life. In van Braght's view, accounts of the martyrs helped to remind readers of the things that mattered, thus inspiring them to greater faithfulness. Martyrs Mirror remains a tool of revival, offering new life to the communities and people who read it by revitalizing Anabaptist ideals and values. Meticulously researched and illustrated with sketches from early publications of Martyrs Mirror, Weaver-Zercher's ambitious history weaves together the existing scholarship on this iconic text in an accessible and engaging way.
About the Author
Reviews
"Required reading for those interested in religious history."—Choice reviews
"Waever-Zercher is to be congratulated for his contribution to Anabaptist and Mennonite history, but also for his excellent example of work in book culture, in a fashion both enlightening and engaging."—Journal of Mennonite Studies
". . . an enduring classic . . ."—Mennonite Quarterly Review
"Shows how a single text can take on different meanings, infusing a cultural identity in an increasingly disparate and diasporic global community. The book is richly researched, it marks an ambitious project, and it offers new insight into the very foundation of Mennonite history."—Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg, American Historical Review
"Well-conceived, well-written, and well-researched, Martyrs Mirror is a terrific book and an absolute pleasure to read."—Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University, author of The Book of Mormon: A Biography
"An ambitious and unprecedented undertaking, this book brings together an accessible summary of scholarship about the Martyrs Mirror with fresh interviews and comments from diverse Anabaptist groups. Weaver-Zercher has a knack for highlighting conflicts and dramas associated with the text's history."—Gerald J. Mast, Bluffton University, author of Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion: Radical Confessional Rhetoric from Schleitheim to Dordrecht
"Presently in religious history there is a critical discussion afoot to understand religion and print culture. This is an important book that significantly advances the way scholars consider not only Martyrs Mirror, but also how texts help to create communities, how religious communities create and sustain memory, and how the roles of narrative production and audience reception are organically related."—Philip Goff, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (IUPUI)
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Other Titles by David L. Weaver-Zercher
The Amish and the Media
Other Titles from Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Fooling with the Amish
Mennonite Farmers
The Lives of Amish Women
Other Titles in RELIGION / Christianity / Mennonite
Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites
Strangers at Home
On the Backroad to Heaven
Other Titles in Religion: general
American Kairos
Sacred Engagements
Situating Poetry