Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

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Plain and simple. American popular culture has embraced a singular image of Amish culture that may be immune to the complexities of the up to date world: one-room school houses, horses and buggies, sound and simple morals, and unfaltering faith. But these stereotypes dangerously oversimplify a wealthy and diverse culture.

In fact, up to date Amish settlements represent a mosaic of practice and conviction. Within the first book to describe the complexity of Amish cultural identity, Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers explore the interaction of migration history, church discipline, and ethnicity locally life of nineteen Amish settlements in Indiana. Their extensive field research reveals the factors that influence the distinct and differing Amish identities found in each and every settlement and how those factors relate to the broad spectrum of Amish settlements during North The united states.

Nolt and Meyers find Amish children who attend public schools, Amish household heads who work at luxury mobile home factories, and Amish women who prefer a Wal-Mart shopping cart to a quilting frame. Challenging the plain and simple view of Amish identity, this study raises the intriguing question of how any such diverse people successfully share a common identity Within the absence of uniformity.


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