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Review of Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life
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Practicality and Identity as Functions of Education in Old Order Mennonite and Hutterite Communities [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 This study is an exploration of common structures, theories, and practices among the educational systems of selected Anabaptist communities, focusing on a Midwestern Schmeideleut Hutterite community and the Groffdale Conference (Old Order) Mennonites in ...
Janelle Zimmerman
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Elevated Frequency and Allelic Heterogeneity of Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome, Finnish Type, in the Old Order Mennonites [PDF]
American Journal of Human Genetics, 1999 We are very indebted to the members of the numerous families with nephrotic syndrome, for sharing information and donating tissue samples; without these families this work would have been impossible. We gratefully acknowledge the superb assistance of Jennifer Scott, for family studies; Kimberly Bentley, Andrew Wong, and Gilbert Wong, for DNA sequencing
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Old Order Mennonites in New York: Cultural and Agricultural Growth
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2016 New York is experiencing dramatic population growth among horse-and-buggy driving populations. Farming is recognized as essential to the maintenance of these cultures. Nationally, these groups, particularly in larger settlements, struggle to stay active in farming.
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Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2021 The Old Colony Mennonites of Belize practice a conservative form of Anabaptism where technology, dress and lifestyle choices are informed by church standards. Members live in a spatially contiguous Colony, which creates land pressure over time as population increases.
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Physical health in a Canadian Old Order Mennonite community [PDF]
Rural and Remote Health, 2013 This article explores physical health and its determinants in two rural populations in Waterloo, Canada: Old Order Mennonites (OOMs) and non-OOM farmers. OOMs were selected because their distinct lifestyle might offer health benefits, and cultural homogeneity and isolation might more clearly expose the determinants shaping their health.
Kathryn A, Fisher +3 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Traditional farming lifestyle has been shown to be protective against asthma and allergic diseases. The individual factors that appear to be associated with this “farm-life effect” include consumption of unpasteurized farm milk and exposure to farm ...
Kirsi M. Järvinen +29 more
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The Amish have decreased asthma and allergic diseases compared with old order Mennonites
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2018 Qianqian Zhao, Christine M Seroogy
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Holding the line: the telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish life
Choice Reviews Online, 1997 Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting ...
Claude S. Fischer, Diane Zimmerman Umble
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Physical Activity Profile of Old Order Amish, Mennonite, and Contemporary Children [PDF]
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2010 This study explored the influence of modernity on the physical activity behaviors (e.g., intensity and timing) of children.Children aged 8-13 yr living a traditional lifestyle (Old Order Amish [OOA], n = 68; Old Order Mennonite [OOM], n = 120) were compared with children living a contemporary lifestyle (rural Saskatchewan [RSK], n = 132; urban ...
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