Authors: John A. Hostetler
ISBN-13: 9780801844423, ISBN-10: 0801844428
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: April 1993
Edition: fourth edition
John A. Hostetler is editor of Amish Roots and author of the widely acclaimed Hutterite Society, both available from Johns Hopkins. Raised in the Amish faith, he is founding director of the Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and a former professor of anthropology and sociology at Temple University.
Highly acclaimed in previous editions, this classic work by John Hostetler has been expanded and updated to reflect current research on Amish history and culture as well as the new concerns of Amish communities throughout North America.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Pt. I | Foundations | |
1 | Models for Understanding Amish Society | 3 |
2 | The Birth of Amish Society | 25 |
3 | To America | 50 |
Pt. II | Stability and Fulfillment | |
4 | The Amish Charter | 73 |
5 | The Community | 91 |
6 | Agriculture and Subsistence | 114 |
7 | The Amish Family | 145 |
8 | Child Nurture and Training | 171 |
9 | The Life Ceremonies | 191 |
10 | Ritual Integration of the Community | 209 |
11 | The Symbolism of Community and Custom | 234 |
Pt. III | Patterns of Change | |
12 | Government and the Amish | 255 |
13 | Change and Fragmentation | 277 |
14 | Deviation and Vulnerability | 300 |
15 | Health and Healing | 322 |
16 | Backstage Amish Life | 343 |
17 | Responses to Change | 361 |
Pt. IV | Survival | |
18 | The Discourse with Survival | 387 |
Selected References | 403 | |
Photo Credits | 426 | |
Index | 427 |