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An Old Order (Tobe) Account of the Schisms of Sam Yoder, Abe Troyer-Jake Stutzman, Tobe Hostetler, Joe L. Schwartz, and Seymour, Missouri: An English Translation of Eine Untersuchung in die Alt Amische Gemein von 1922 Bis zu 1974 [An Examination in the Old Amish Brotherhood from 1922 to 1974]

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2019
This is a German-to-English translation of a report describing several Amish schisms where the main dispute concerned the Bann (excommunication), Meidung (shunning), and the full council of the brotherhood prior to these actions.
Gregory Sheets, Dan Raber, Cory Anderson
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Review of German Language, Cradle of Our Heritage—Amos Hoover

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
German Language, Cradle of our Heritage provides a window into the social story behind heritage language maintenance among High German-speaking Swiss Mennonites (as opposed to the Low German-speaking Netherlandic Mennonites).
Roslyn Burns
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Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
wiley   +1 more source

Dutchified English in an Ohio Beachy Amish-Mennonite Community

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2019
This article compares the English spoken by Beachy Amish-Mennonites just outside the Holmes County, OH, plain community with the English of non-plain neighbors.
Lara Downing
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Announcements

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
"(1) Call for Papers: 'Gender-Focused Research in Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies' (2) Postponed-The 2020 Fourth Annual APASA Conference"
JAPAS Editors
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers—Donald Kraybill

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015
Donald Kraybill is the author, coauthor, or editor of over a dozen books on Anabaptist and Amish culture. The latest addition to this list is Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers.
Shawn Peters
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Religion and Attitudes toward Same-Sex Marriage among U.S. Latinos

open access: yes, 2011
Objectives. This study examines links between multiple aspects of religious involvement and attitudes toward same-sex marriage among U.S. Latinos. The primary focus is on variations by affiliation and participation, but the possible mediating roles of ...
Acevedo, Gabriel A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
wiley   +1 more source

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