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Growing Up Amish - The Rumspringa Years (Paperback, second edition)
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Growing Up Amish - The Rumspringa Years (Paperback, second edition)
Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
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On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth
in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they
complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later
they begin Rumspringa - that brief period during which they are
free to date and explore the outside world before choosing whether
to embrace a lifetime of Amish faith and culture. But the Internet
and social media may be having a profound influence on significant
numbers of the Youngie, according to Richard A. Stevick, who says
that Amish teenagers are now exposed to a world that did not exist
for them only a few years ago. Once hidden in physical mailboxes,
announcements of weekend parties are now posted on Facebook. Today,
thousands of Youngie in large Amish settlements are dedicated
smartphone and Internet users, forcing them to navigate carefully
between technology and religion. Updated photographs throughout
this edition of Growing Up Amish include a screenshot from an Amish
teenager's Facebook page. In the second edition of Growing Up
Amish, Stevick draws on decades of experience working with and
studying Amish adolescents across the United States to produce this
well-rounded, definitive, and realistic view of contemporary Amish
youth. Besides discussing the impact of smartphones and social
media usage, he carefully examines work and leisure, rites of
passage, the rise of supervised youth groups, courtship rituals,
weddings, and the remarkable Amish retention rate. Finally, Stevick
contemplates the potential of electronic media to significantly
alter traditional Amish practices, culture, and staying power.
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