Online Mapping Tools for Geolocating Amish Settlements [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 This technical note demonstrates the value of using online mapping tools as a method of geolocating Amish settlements. Primarily using freely available Bing and Google maps and published lists of the addresses of Amish ministers, we geolocated 1,362 ...
Andrew Wilson +2 more
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Of Shoulders and Shadows: Selected Amish Scholarship before 1963 [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2017 John Hostetler’s first edition of Amish Society in 1963 is a milestone in the advancement of scholarship about the Amish. It was revised and re-issued through three more editions.
Joseph Donnermeyer
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The Amish Population: County Estimates and Settlement Patterns [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2013 This article presents the findings of a county-based estimate of the Amish population. The results are from work commissioned by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies for the recently released 2010 U.S.
Joseph Donnermeyer +2 more
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Birthing New Kinships: The Cross-Pollinating Potential of Amish Health Research [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2017 In this article, I explore the connections between Amish gender socialization and Amish birth practices to suggest that an Amish construction of femininity shapes the ways that Amish women experience childbirth.
Natalie Jolly
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Critique [of The Challenges and Limitations of Conducting Research Among the Old Order Amish by Jerry Savells and Thomas Foster] [PDF]
, 1987 The fact that the Old Order Amish have resisted acculturation processes in the United States is not startling news. The generally successful persistence of many aspects of traditional Amish culture as islands within the mainstream of American society has
Gradwohl, David
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Seventy-Five Years of Amish Studies, 1942 to 2017: A Critical Review of Scholarship Trends (with an Extensive Bibliography) [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2017 After 75 years, Amish studies has received no field reviews, an oversight I rectify with this article using several citation analysis techniques. I offer criteria for defining Amish research, which results in 983 references that are analyzed.
Cory Anderson
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Amish Education: A Synthesis [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 Amish education is one of the most researched subtopics in Amish studies. This article is a meta-analysis of the existing literature about Amish education, finding that most research discusses how the parochial school system functions to socialize ...
Cory Anderson
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Realignment and Division in the Amish Community of Allen County, Indiana: A Historical Narrative [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2013 The Amish have long faced disagreement over matters of internal policy and adoption of external ideas like evangelical emphases. In Allen County, Indiana, several branches of Anabaptists have developed from the original Swiss Amish settlers because of ...
Christopher Petrovich
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Old Order Amish Education: The Yoder Decision in the 21st Century [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 Prior to the 1972 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Wisconsin v. Yoder, et al., parents found themselves in court in a number of states. This essay explores the Yoder decision and its relevance for the Amish today, contrasting the understanding of ...
Karen Johnson-Weiner
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Amish Economic Transformations: New Forms of Income and Wealth Distribution in a Traditionally “Flat” Community [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2014 The basic contours of the Amish economic transformation over the past few decades have been well documented, including the demographic squeeze that pushed many Amish out of farming, their embrace of cottage industries and, to a lesser extent, factory ...
Amyaz Moledina +3 more
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