Plain Diversity

Plain Diversity
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781421402840
ISBN-13 : 142140284X
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Book Synopsis Plain Diversity by : Steven M. Nolt

Download or read book Plain Diversity written by Steven M. Nolt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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