Plain diversity : Amish cultures and identities

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Plain diversity : Amish cultures and identities

Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers

（Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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Bibliography: p. [227]-235

Includes index

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Plain and simple. American popular culture has embraced a singular image of Amish culture that is immune to the complexities of the modern world: one-room school houses, horses and buggies, sound and simple morals, and unfaltering faith. But these stereotypes dangerously oversimplify a rich and diverse culture. In fact, contemporary Amish settlements represent a mosaic of practice and conviction. In 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 in the community 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 settlement and how those factors relate to the broad spectrum of Amish settlements throughout North America. 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 such a diverse people successfully share a common identity in the absence of uniformity.

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Preface 1. Introduction: Amish Images and Identities Part I: Patterns of Peoplehood 2. Migration 3. Ordnung 4. Ethnicity Part II: Comparative Communities 5. Elkhart-LaGrange and Nappanee Settlements 6. Swiss Settlements of Eastern Indiana 7. Transplants from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 8. The Paoli-Salem Communities Part III: Diversity 9. Diverse Amish Worlds 10. Amish Community as Conversation Appendix: Extinct Indiana Amish Settlements Notes References Index

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