Mennonites in Belize

Everitt, John

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“…Today, most of the Mennonite settlements in Belize are based in the agricultural economy (Everitt 1983;Roessingh 2007). The first arrivals in Belize were the Old Colony and Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites, who arrived in 1958.…”

Section: Who Are the Mennonites Of Belize?mentioning

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The Hoover Mennonites in Belize: A History of Expansion in the Shadow of Separation

Roessingh¹,

Bovenberg²

2018

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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We examine the migration history of the Old Order Hoover Mennonites located in the small, multiethnic country of Belize. The Hoover Mennonites live in the settlements of Upper Barton Creek, Springfield, Birdwalk, and Roseville. Characterized as one of Belize's more conservative churches, the Hoover Church is also Belize's most geographically dispersed Mennonite community. This paper brings together historical and present-day sources to account for and chart this dispersion. To describe what brought together this group between 1958 and 1984 and what drove their subsequent migration across Belize, we examine the religious and legal circumstances of the founding of their settlements. Observations and reflections on their most recent expansion consider how changes in immigration policy, desire for separation from worldly influences, and population growth contributed to an Old Order community that is doubly separated: from the world and from kindred settlements.

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Section: Who Are the Mennonites Of Belize?mentioning

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The Hoover Mennonites in Belize: A History of Expansion in the Shadow of Separation

Roessingh¹,

Bovenberg²

2018

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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“…An agreement was signed in 1957, leading to the migration of several Mennonite groups: the Old Colony, Sommerfelder, and Kleine Gemeinde (Driedger 1958;Everitt 1983;Loewen 2013;Sawatzky 1971). The Mennonites were granted freedom to administer their own colonies in exchange for producing food for the local market and export (Sawatzky 1971).…”

Section: The Mennonites and Their Entry Into Belizementioning

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“…The Mennonites were granted freedom to administer their own colonies in exchange for producing food for the local market and export (Sawatzky 1971). In 1958, the first group of Old Colony Mennonites from Mexico arrived, settling in Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District (Everitt 1983;Sawatzky 1971). In the same year, another group from Mexico, the Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites, settled at Spanish Lookout in the Cayo District (Koop 1991;Loewen 2006;Quiring 1961).…”

Section: The Mennonites and Their Entry Into Belizementioning

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"No Sunday Business": Navigating Religious Rules and Business Opportunities in the Shipyard Mennonite Settlement, Belize

Roessingh¹,

Bovenberg²

2017

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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Within the Old Colony Mennonite settlements of Belize, the relationship between religious and economic practices entails a constant navigation of the acceptable, where threats of worldliness come from technology and from contact with outsiders. This paper takes as its focus the business of a butcher in Shipyard settlement, whose daily work testifies to a navigation of both of these potential threats. This entrepreneur uses technologies of energy, transportation, and communication-operated in part by an outside worker-to extend the radius of his meat business. The tense environment of Shipyard's religious diversity frames our discussion of these observations, leading us to reconsider our understanding of the Ordnung and its relation to business activity. To understand the entrepreneur's skillful navigation of rules and opportunities, we use the term "social capital" (Bourdieu 1986;Portes 2010) to reflect on the paradoxical relationship between religious rules and entrepreneurial space-and to consider how the Ordnung can be seen as a spacious (rather than a constrictive) place for Mennonite entrepreneurs.

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“…They found such a place in British Honduras with which an agreement was signed in 1957 leading to the migration of several Mennonite groups ('Altkolonier', 'Sommerfelder', 'Kleine Gemeinde') to this British colony (Everitt, 1983;Sawatzky, 1971). The Mennonites were granted freedom to administer their own colonies and exemption from military service in exchange for producing food for the local market and for export (Sawatzky, 1971).…”

Section: Mennonites and Their Road To Belizementioning

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“…The Mennonites were granted freedom to administer their own colonies and exemption from military service in exchange for producing food for the local market and for export (Sawatzky, 1971). In 1958 the first group of Old Colony Mennonites from Mexico arrived in British Honduras to settle in Blue Creek and Shipyard in the Orange Walk District (Everitt, 1983;Roessingh and Plasil, 2006;Sawatzky, 1971). In the same year another group, the 'Kleine Gemeinde' Mennonites, who also migrated from Mexico, settled in a place called Spanish Lookout in the Cayo District (Higdon, 1997;Quiring, 1961;Sawatzky, 1971).…”

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Social capital and Mennonite entrepreneurship: the case of Circle R in Blue Creek, Northern Belize

Roessingh

Smits

2010

IJIRD

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Abstract:In Belize, Central America, Mennonites are notably present in the entrepreneurial arena of the country. Mennonite entrepreneurs face numerous challenges in establishing and running their business, like acquiring the education and skills needed to run an organisation. The Mennonites often make use of the social capital present within the community. Social capital is an important source, which is obtained from a network of connections allowing persons or organisations to enhance access to needed openings and changes. Religion is a rich and efficient foundation of social capital because it creates a shared background and common thoughts that bind people. By making use of their social capital entrepreneurs are able to expand their activities. Circle R illustrates the way in which social capital is present in a modern Mennonite organisation. This paper investigates how the concept of social capital is reflected in the daily practice of the Mennonite organisation of Circle R.

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Mennonites in Belize

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The Hoover Mennonites in Belize: A History of Expansion in the Shadow of Separation

The Hoover Mennonites in Belize: A History of Expansion in the Shadow of Separation

"No Sunday Business": Navigating Religious Rules and Business Opportunities in the Shipyard Mennonite Settlement, Belize

Social capital and Mennonite entrepreneurship: the case of Circle R in Blue Creek, Northern Belize

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