Author: P. L. Gaus
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: amish, country, mysteries, mystery, separate, ohio, world
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0821418157
ISBN-13: 9780821418154
Separate from the Worldis a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence. Once more, P. L. Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the “English” as they live inside or outside each other’s orbits.
Authors:Charles E. Hurst, David L. McConnell,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: amish, books, anabaptist, pietist, studies, center, largest, paradox, diversity, change, world, community
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2010-03-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801893992
ISBN-13: 9780801893995
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 incre
Author: Tom Shachtman
Publisher: North Point Press
Keywords: amish, rumspringa
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0865477426
ISBN-13: 9780865477421
Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman’s celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa--the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives--whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, o
Author: Richard Ammon
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: year, amish
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2007-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1590784650
ISBN-13: 9781590784655
Spend a year with Anna and her family and learn what it is like to be Amish, from day to day and season to season. In the springtime, Anna looks forward to Easter festivities, planting the garden, and spring cleaning. Sumer begins with the school picnic. On a clear summer day, Anna’s family makes hay and afterwards enjoys a picnic with ice cream. In fall, Anna begins fourth grade in the one room schoolhouse, and at home she helps her mother can fruit for the winter. November is wedding season for the Amish, and Thanksgiving and Christmas follow soon after. Winter is a time for feas
Author: John A. Hostetler
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: society, amish
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0801844428
ISBN-13: 9780801844423
Highly acclaimed in previous editions, this classic work by John Hostetler 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.
Author: Gayle Roper
Publisher: Harvest House Publisher
Keywords: trilogy, farm, amish, wish, stranger
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0736925864
ISBN-13: 9780736925860
Beloved author Gayle Roper begins a contemporary Amish series readers are sure to love.... Englischer Kristie Matthews’ move to an Amish family farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, starts on a bad note as the young schoolteacher is bitten by a dog. A trip to the local ER leads to an encounter with an old man who hands her a key and swears her to silence. But when Kristie’s life is endangered, she suspects there’s a connection to the mysterious key. While solving the mystery (and staying alive), Kristie must decide whether her lawyer boyfriend, Todd Reasoner, is really right for her...
Author: P. L. Gau
Publisher: Ohio University Pre
Keywords: mystery, series, amish, ohio, blue, shadow, cast
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-11-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0821415301
ISBN-13: 9780821415306
After the first blizzard of winter, a Mennonite girl with a troubled past appears curled up and bloodied outside the office of her former psychiatrist. The wealthy mother of her boyfriend has been murdered, but Martha Lehman has turned mute once more and Professor Branden must investigate.
