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Hemmed In? Considering the Complexities of Amish Womanhood

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
How have conceptions of Amish womanhood changed over time? In this article, I show that while early scholars offered only a rudimentary look at Amish women’s lives, current research is expanding and expounding upon this question. To begin, I survey early
Natalie Jolly
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The Christian Right in Europe

open access: yes, 2023
Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. By assembling in anti-gender movements and sharing anti-Muslim narratives, they actively influence the political landscape and shape government policies. The contributors offer new
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Bourdieu in Plain Anabaptist Studies? A Symposium Review of Good Gingrich, Luann. 2016. Out of Place: Social Exclusion and Mennonite Migrants in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2017
"Editor’s introduction—This symposium offers the reviews of two authors who, without sparing whatever criticism can be mustered, hold her work up as archetypal for rigorous methods and theory in plain Anabaptist studies.
Jeffrey Longhofer   +2 more
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Psychological Stress and Birth Outcomes in Amish Women Before and After the Nickel Mines Shooting

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the impact of the Nickel Mines shooting October 2, 2006 on the psychological stress and birth outcomes of Amish women living in proximity to the event.
Berwood Yost   +4 more
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Amish and Mennonite Lay Caregivers' Experiences Using the B&W Burdock Leaf Treatment on Burns and Wounds: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018
Amish and Mennonites have a long standing heritage of caring for each other within the community and family setting using natural, herbal medicines and therapies.
Rosanna Hess
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Review of Reflections on Old Order German Sects in Berks County: Past, Present and Future—Owen Reitenauer, et al. (eds.)

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Berks County with its diamond-shaped area of 864 square miles located in southeastern Pennsylvania is rich in history and scenic resources. Its mild climate, fertile soil, and the Schuylkill River attracted European settlers in the beginning of the ...
Berit Jany
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The Pure Church Movement

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018
The “Pure Church Movement” is introduced as a plain Anabaptist revival that unfolded in American, Canadian, and Latin American Swiss Mennonite, Russian Mennonite, and Amish churches over the course of the 20th century. It was an intentional return to the
Peter Hoover
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Flesh, Freundschaft, and Fellowship: Towards a Holistic Model of the Amish Kinship System

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Kinship as a social anthropological category, with its three fundamentals – affinity, descent, and siblingship – denotes an orderly system of social relationships past, present, and future, through which a social system is composed and reproduced.
Vlatka Škender
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'Our Faith Is Good, but Strict': The Transformation of the Apostolic Christian Church-Nazarene in North America

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018
The number of religious minorities from Central and Eastern Europe prone to migration to the English-speaking world increased considerably during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among them were the Evangelical Baptists, or Neutäufer, founded by a
Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović
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