Amish Paradox Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community

Name: Amish Paradox Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community
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ISBN: 9780801893995

ISBN-10: 0801893992

ISBN-13: 9780801893995

Edition: 2010

Authors: Charles E. Hurst, David L. McConnell

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Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the world's 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…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Figures, Maps, and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Discovering the Holmes County Amish



The Origins of Religious Diversity



Coping with Church Schism



Continuity and Change in Family Life



The Changing Landscape of Learning



Work Within and Outside Tradition



Health along the Life Cycle



Stepping Back and Looking Forward


Appendixes



Methodology



Ohio Amish Settlements, 2008



Holmes County Settlement Amish Church Schisms, 1900-2001


Notes


Bibliography


Index