An Amish Patchwork

Meyers, Thomas J.; Nolt, Steven M.

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“…The Census Bureau collected information of the language spoken at home in recent censuses. According to Meyers and Nolt (2005, p. 61), the Amish and conservative Mennonites represent almost all of the current speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a German Dialect 14 . Pollack (1981) reported that as the Amish people shifted to more liberal Mennonite denominations, they ceased to use Pennsylvania Dutch as their primary language, indicating that speaking Pennsylvania Dutch signals attachment to the Amish and conservative Mennonite Church 15 .…”

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Religious prohibition and sacrifice: evidence from the Amish restriction on high school education

Wang

2020

J. Dem. Econ.

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The Amish collective objection to high school education and refusal to comply with compulsory schooling laws can be interpreted with a religious-club-good framework. According to the religious-club interpretation, the Amish use the restriction on secular education as a religious prohibition and sacrifice to improve the welfare of sect members. I exploit the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which exempts Amish children from compulsory high school education, as a policy shock to test several key predictions of the religious-club explanations. The evidence suggests that the successful restriction on high school education helped the Amish sect exclude individuals with low religious participation, lower members' shadow cost of time, and grow the sect through higher fertility.

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Religious prohibition and sacrifice: evidence from the Amish restriction on high school education

Wang

2020

J. Dem. Econ.

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“…Elkhart-LaGrange, Nappanee, and Kokomo are settlements, not affiliations (Meyers and Nolt 2005). And then, inconsistent at another level, they lump all New Orders together despite equally similar settlement-based distinctiveness, consolidating settlements such as Guthrie (KY), Oakland (MD), and Holmes County (OH).…”

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“…Thomas Meyers and Steven Nolt (2005) follow traditional usage in An Amish Patchwork, noting that the Amish themselves employ fellowship language to indicate which congregations they associate with. The authors also observe that an affiliation is different than a settlement even though some settlements are aligned with a single affiliation.…”

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“…This definition was largely adopted by later scholars, with only minor modifications made along the way. It was generally assumed that there are four affiliations-Swartzentruber, Andy Weaver, Old Order, and New Order-or perhaps a few more (Kraybill 1994;Hurst and McConnell 2010;Meyers and Nolt 2005). But in The Amish, Kraybill, Johnson-Weiner, and Nolt (2013) offer an entirely new definition of an affiliation as a cluster of two or more districts with at least twenty years of shared history.…”

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More Than Forty Amish Affiliations? Charting the Fault Lines

Petrovich¹

2017

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliations is important to researchers: as a suitable measurement of conservatism, as a useful context for making sense of a particular district or settlement, for tracing socio-religious change over time, and for depicting both the unity and diversity that characterize contemporary Amish socio-ecclesiastical life. Until recently, scholars followed John Hostetler's definition of an affiliation as a group of church districts that fellowship together and share a common Ordnung. But in The Amish, Donald Kraybill, Karen Johnson-Weiner, and Steven Nolt offer an entirely new definition of an affiliation as a cluster of two or more districts with at least twenty years of shared history. They conclude that there are at least 40 Amish affiliations. I argue against this haphazard fragmentation, identifying six major affiliations and a handful of outliers. I then apply my traditional-modified model to several scenarios to demonstrate the model's utility.

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“…Factory workers often commented on the stress experienced while working at a fast‐paced assembly line (Cf. Meyers, “Stress and the Amish Community”). For these Amish in particular, it is believed that recliners and beds might offer a sense of escape as well as a sense of reward.…”

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Valued Amish Possessions: Expanding Material Culture and Consumption

Tharp

2007

J of American Culture

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An Amish Patchwork

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Religious prohibition and sacrifice: evidence from the Amish restriction on high school education

Religious prohibition and sacrifice: evidence from the Amish restriction on high school education

More Than Forty Amish Affiliations? Charting the Fault Lines

Valued Amish Possessions: Expanding Material Culture and Consumption

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