Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse
Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains
relatively unknown compared to its famous cousin in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell conducted
seven years of fieldwork, including interviews with over 200
residents, to understand the dynamism that drives social change and
schism within the settlement, where Amish enterprises and
nonfarming employment have prospered. The authors contend that the
Holmes County Amish are experiencing an unprecedented and complex
process of change as their increasing entanglement with the
non-Amish market causes them to rethink their religious
convictions, family practices, educational choices, occupational
shifts, and health care options.
The authors challenge the popular image of the Amish as a
homogeneous, static, insulated society, showing how the Amish
balance tensions between individual needs and community values.
They find that self-made millionaires work alongside struggling
dairy farmers; successful female entrepreneurs live next door to
stay-at-home mothers; and teenagers both embrace and reject the
coming-of-age ritual, "rumspringa."
"An Amish Paradox" captures the complexity and creativity of
the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a
vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition
as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.
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