An Amish Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Amish Paradox write by Charles E. Hurst. This book was released on 2010-04-05. An Amish Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, 2011 Dale Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compared to its famous cousin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell conducted seven years of fieldwork, including interviews with over 200 residents, to understand the dynamism that drives social change and schism within the settlement, where Amish enterprises and nonfarming employment have prospered. The authors contend that the Holmes County Amish are experiencing an unprecedented and complex process of change as their increasing entanglement with the non-Amish market causes them to rethink their religious convictions, family practices, educational choices, occupational shifts, and health care options. The authors challenge the popular image of the Amish as a homogeneous, static, insulated society, showing how the Amish balance tensions between individual needs and community values. They find that self-made millionaires work alongside struggling dairy farmers; successful female entrepreneurs live next door to stay-at-home mothers; and teenagers both embrace and reject the coming-of-age ritual, rumspringa. An Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War write by James O. Lehman. This book was released on 2007-11-05. Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs and values.
Nature and the Environment in Amish Life
Nature and the Environment in Amish Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and the Environment in Amish Life write by David L. McConnell. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Nature and the Environment in Amish Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive study of Amish understandings of the natural world, this compelling book complicates the image of the Amish and provides a more realistic understanding of the Amish relationship with the environment.
Why the Amish Sing
Why the Amish Sing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the Amish Sing write by D. Rose Elder. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Why the Amish Sing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intimate portrait of the diverse music-making at the center of Amish faith and life. Singing occurs in nearly every setting of Amish life. It is a sanctioned pleasure that frames all Amish rituals and one that enlivens and sanctifies both routine and special events, from household chores, road trips by buggy, and family prayer to baptisms, youth group gatherings, weddings, and “single girl” sings. But because Amish worship is performed in private homes instead of public churches, few outsiders get the chance to hear Amish people sing. Amish music also remains largely unexplored in the field of ethnomusicology. In Why the Amish Sing, D. Rose Elder introduces readers to the ways that Amish music both reinforces and advances spiritual life, delving deep into the Ausbund, the oldest hymnal in continuous use. This illuminating ethnomusicological study demonstrates how Amish groups in Wayne and Holmes Counties, Ohio—the largest concentration of Amish in the world—sing to praise God and, at the same time, remind themselves of their 450-year history of devotion. Singing instructs Amish children in community ways and unites the group through common participation. As they sing in unison to the weighty words of their ancestors, the Amish confirm their love and support for the community. Their singing delineates their common journey—a journey that demands separation from the world and yielding to God's will. By making school visits, attending worship services and youth sings, and visiting private homes, Elder has been given the rare opportunity to listen to Amish singing in its natural social and familial context. She combines one-on-one interviews with detailed observations of how song provides a window into Amish cultural beliefs, values, and norms.
Plain Diversity
Plain Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plain Diversity write by Steven M. Nolt. This book was released on 2007. Plain Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
