Amish Society

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JHU Press, 1993 - History - 435 pages

A highly acclaimed classic, the fourth edition of Amish Society has been expanded and updated to reflect current research on Amish history and culture as well as the new concerns of Amish communities throughout North America.

 

Contents

Models for Understanding Amish Society
3
The Birth of Amish Society
25
To America
50
The Amish Charter
73
The Community
91
Agriculture and Subsistence
114
The Amish Family
145
Child Nurture and Training
171
Language and Speech 241 Names 244 Unpretentious
249
Government and the Amish
255
Change and Fragmentation
277
Deviation and Vulnerability
300
Health and Healing
322
Backstage Amish Life
343
Responses to Change
361
The Discourse with Survival
387

The Life Ceremonies
191
Ritual Integration of the Community
209
The Symbolism of Community and Custom
234

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About the author (1993)

John A. Hostetler (1918–2001) is author of the best-selling Amish Society and the widely acclaimed Hutterite Society, both available from Johns Hopkins. Raised in the Amish faith, he was founding director of the Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and a former professor of anthropology and sociology at Temple University.

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