Growing up Amish The Rumspringa Years

Name: Growing up Amish The Rumspringa Years
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ISBN: 9781421413716

ISBN-10: 142141371X

ISBN-13: 9781421413716

Edition: 2nd 2014

Authors: Richard A. Stevick

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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, exposing Amish teenagers 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…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English