Plain and simple. American popular culture has embraced a singular
image of Amish culture that is immune to the complexities of the
modern world: one-room school houses, horses and buggies, sound and
simple morals, and unfaltering faith. But these stereotypes
dangerously oversimplify a rich and diverse culture.
In fact, contemporary Amish settlements represent a mosaic of
practice and conviction. In the first book to describe the
complexity of Amish cultural identity, Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J.
Meyers explore the interaction of migration history, church
discipline, and ethnicity in the community life of nineteen Amish
settlements in Indiana. Their extensive field research reveals the
factors that influence the distinct and differing Amish identities
found in each settlement and how those factors relate to the broad
spectrum of Amish settlements throughout North America.
Nolt and Meyers find Amish children who attend public schools,
Amish household heads who work at luxury mobile home factories, and
Amish women who prefer a Wal-Mart shopping cart to a quilting
frame. Challenging the plain and simple view of Amish identity,
this study raises the intriguing question of how such a diverse
people successfully share a common identity in the absence of
uniformity.
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