edited by Diana Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher.
ISBN
9780801887895 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801887895 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Witnessing the Amish / Crystal Downing -- Reel Amish / Dirk Eitzen -- "Why we fear the Amish" / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Pursuing paradise / David L. Weaver-Zercher -- Heritage versus history / Susan Biesecker -- Hollywood rumspringa / Dirk Eitzen -- Amish informants / Donald B. Kraybill -- Inscribing community / Steven M. Nolt -- Publish or perish / Karen Johnson-Weiner -- "Wicked truth" / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- The Amish, the media, and the Nickel Mines School shooting / Diane Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher.
edited by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, Steven D. Reschly.
ISBN
080186786X (alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
c2002.
Physical Description
xii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Center books in Anabaptist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p.365]-385) and index.
Summary
"This collection of original essays focuses on the rich, historically diverse, and often misunderstood experiences of Amish, Mennonite, and other women of Anabaptist traditions across 400 years. Equal parts sociology, religious history, and gender studies, the book explores the changing roles and issues surrounding Anabaptist women in communities ranging from sixteenth-century Europe to contemporary North America. Gathered under the overarching theme of the insider/outsider distinction, the essays discuss, among other topics:• How womanhood was defined in early Anabaptist societies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how women served as central figures by convening meetings across class boundaries or becoming religious leaders •/ How nineteenth-century Amish tightened the connections among the individual, the family, the household, and the community by linking them into a shared framework with the father figure at the helm •/ The changing work world and domestic life of Mennonite women in the three decades following World War II / •The recent ascendency of antimodernism and plain dress among the Amish• / The special difficulties faced by scholars who try to apply a historical or sociological method to the very same cultural subgroups from which they derive The essays in this collection follow a fascinating journey through time and place to give voice to women who are often characterized as the 'quiet in the land.' Their voices and their experiences demonstrate the power of religion to shape identity and social practice." [from the publisher]
