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War against progressessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Amish resistance to modernity in many ways is a war against the spirit of progress. The cultural battle waged by the Amish involves the drawing and redrawing of social lines to maintain their identity and preserve their culture. Donald B. Kraybill ex...Plotting social change across four affiliationsessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
The Amish response to modernity has not been uniform. Different affiliations of Amish in various settlements have developed a diversity of lifestyle practices. Donald B. Kraybill compares four affiliations that live side by side in the largest Amish ...Introductionessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this article, Kraybill offers an overview of Amish society. From their origins as dissident Anabaptists in sixteenth century Europe to their present status as a religious minority in North American society, the Amish have struggled to maintain a d...The Amish encounter with modernityessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this study, Kraybill identifies some features of the elusive concept of modernity and then profiles the extent of Amish adaptations at both cultural and structural levels. The author concludes by arguing that modernity is a proces of social separa...The rise of microenterprisesessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B. & Nolt, Steven M.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
The Amish settlement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been dramatically squeezed by the pressures of suburbanization in recent decades. Declining farmland, rising land prices, and a burgeoning Amish population have made it difficult for young c...Bibliographyessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B. & Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article consists in its entirety of bibliograpical citations relevant to documents 21-36 in this collection....