The Amish People of Holmes County, Ohio
Title | The Amish People of Holmes County, Ohio PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Rexford Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | Amish |
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An Historical Study of the Amish People in the Holmes County Area of Ohio
Title | An Historical Study of the Amish People in the Holmes County Area of Ohio PDF eBook |
Author | John Lewis Nethers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Mennonites |
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The Amish of Holmes County
Title | The Amish of Holmes County PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Religion |
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Ohio Amish Directory
Title | Ohio Amish Directory PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Wengerd |
Publisher | Carlisle Press (OH) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Amish |
ISBN | 9781890050429 |
The most comprehensive directory of its kind among the Amish. Contains over 24,000 entries: names, addresses, occupations, birthdates, children's names and birthdates, indexed, maps.
An Amish Paradox
Title | An Amish Paradox PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Hurst |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2010-04-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0801897904 |
Winner, 2011 Dale Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compared to its famous cousin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell conducted seven years of fieldwork, including interviews with over 200 residents, to understand the dynamism that drives social change and schism within the settlement, where Amish enterprises and nonfarming employment have prospered. The authors contend that the Holmes County Amish are experiencing an unprecedented and complex process of change as their increasing entanglement with the non-Amish market causes them to rethink their religious convictions, family practices, educational choices, occupational shifts, and health care options. The authors challenge the popular image of the Amish as a homogeneous, static, insulated society, showing how the Amish balance tensions between individual needs and community values. They find that self-made millionaires work alongside struggling dairy farmers; successful female entrepreneurs live next door to stay-at-home mothers; and teenagers both embrace and reject the coming-of-age ritual, rumspringa. An Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.
Clouds without Rain
Title | Clouds without Rain PDF eBook |
Author | P. L. Gaus |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0821440624 |
Written in the tradition of Tony Hillerman, in Clouds without Rain, P. L. Gaus once again provides compelling intrigue and insight into Amish culture and tradition alongside contemporary American life. In the wake of a fatal accident involving an Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler, Professor Michael Branden, working with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, becomes suspicious about the true nature of the crash. His suspicions only grow when the trustee of the dead man’s estate disappears a few days later. Faced with Amish teenagers in goat masks robbing buggies on dusty lanes, land swindles involving out-of-town developers, several mysterious deaths, and the disappearance of a bank official, Branden realizes that there is far more to the story than a buggy crash on a sleepy country road. This new edition of Clouds without Rain features an exclusive interview with the author, reading group materials, and a detailed map and driving guide to Holmes County, Ohio with everything one needs to visit the iconic scenes depicted in the story.
History, Customs, and Social Life of the Amish of Ohio with Special Reference to Holmes County
Title | History, Customs, and Social Life of the Amish of Ohio with Special Reference to Holmes County PDF eBook |
Author | Velma LaRue Leeper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Amish |
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