Holding the Line The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life

Name: Holding the Line The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life
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ISBN: 9780801863752

ISBN-10: 0801863759

ISBN-13: 9780801863752

Edition: 1996

Authors: Diane Zimmerman Umble

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Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence, and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting telephone ownership among the clergy. By 1909, the Amish had banned the telephone completely from their homes. Since then, the vigorous and sometimes painful debates about the meaning of the telephone reveal intense concerns about the maintenance of boundaries between the community and the outside world and the processes Old Order communities…

Book details

Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.98" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Conceptual and Cultural Foundations



Wer Bischt Du? Who Are You?



Who Are the Old Order Amish and Mennonites?



Community and the Web of Communication



The Coming of the Telephone to Lancaster County



We Want Telephone Connections



An Amish Mennonite Telephone Company: The Conestoga Telephone and Telegraph Company



Competition Heats Up: The Enterprise and Intercourse Companies Compete for Customers



Divine or Sinful? Competing Meanings of the Telephone



Divine Service or Devil's Workshop? Meanings of the Telephone in the Early Twentieth Century



On the Line: Renegotiating the Telephone Rules



Drawing the Line: The Shifting Meaning of the Telephone in Old Order Life


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index