Growing Up Amish - 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 Growing Up Amish write by Ira Wagler. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Growing Up Amish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times eBook bestseller! One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life—from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in America today—the Old Order Amish.
Growing Up Amish
Growing Up Amish - 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 Growing Up Amish write by Richard A. Stevick. This book was released on 2007-04-02. Growing Up Amish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract:
Growing Up Amish
Growing Up Amish - 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 Growing Up Amish write by Anna Dee Olson. This book was released on 2008. Growing Up Amish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Olson presents this captivating story of life in the Amish Community. She chronicles the determination of a young woman who decides that life outside the walls of the community would be a better life--one she is going to have no matter how hard the struggles.
Growing Up Amish
Growing Up Amish - 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 Growing Up Amish write by Richard A. Stevick. This book was released on 2014-06-15. Growing Up Amish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accurately reveals the challenges faced by Amish youth caught between the expectations of traditional community and the pressures and temptations of adolescence. On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later they begin Rumspringa—that brief period during which they are free to date and explore the outside world before choosing whether to embrace a lifetime of Amish faith and culture. But the Internet and social media may be having a profound influence on significant numbers of the Youngie, according to Richard A. Stevick, who says that Amish teenagers are now exposed to a world that did not exist for them only a few years ago. Once hidden in physical mailboxes, announcements of weekend parties are now posted on Facebook. Today, thousands of Youngie in large Amish settlements are dedicated smartphone and Internet users, forcing them to navigate carefully between technology and religion. Updated photographs throughout this edition of Growing Up Amish include a screenshot from an Amish teenager's Facebook page. In the second edition of Growing Up Amish, Stevick draws on decades of experience working with and studying Amish adolescents across the United States to produce this well-rounded, definitive, and realistic view of contemporary Amish youth. Besides discussing the impact of smartphones and social media usage, he carefully examines work and leisure, rites of passage, the rise of supervised youth groups, courtship rituals, weddings, and the remarkable Amish retention rate. Finally, Stevick contemplates the potential of electronic media to significantly alter traditional Amish practices, culture, and staying power.
Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult: Deception
Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult: Deception - 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 Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult: Deception write by Patricia Hochstetler. This book was released on 2007. Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult: Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Book one, Delusion is a record of how her parents met, married, and decided to follow The Elder. It details the trauma she experienced between the ages of four and six. It shows why the colony moved from their 2,005 acres in Tennessee. Deception begins in Mississippi where the colony moved to a cotton plantation in the delta. It records her childhood from age six to sixteen. Deliverance will show what transpired in the summer of 1964 when she was forced from the isolated cult environment--all she knew--and cast into a foreign world of culture shock all right here in America."--Book two, p. 4 of cover.
