Old Order Amish Settlement: Diffusion and Growth

Crowley, William K.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1978.tb01194.x

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“…Currently no Old-Order exist in Europe. Persecution and political sanctions in the 17th and 18th centuries had spread European Amish families too far apart to form cohesive communities, forcing early European Amish to eventually assimilate with non-Amish (Gascho, 1937;Hostetler, 1977;Crowley, 1978;Nolt, 1992;Roth, 2002). Thus the magnitude of Amish endogamy was probably negligible in Europe compared with Amish endogamous mating in the United States.…”

Section: A Model Of (Self-)selectionmentioning

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Some Uses of Models of Quantitative Genetic Selection in Social Science

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2016

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary. The theory of selection of quantitative traits is widely used in evolutionary biology, agriculture and other related fields. The fundamental model known as the breeder's equation is simple, robust over short time scales, and it is often possible to estimate plausible parameters. In this paper it is suggested that the results of this model provide useful yardsticks for the description of social traits and the evaluation of transmission models. The differences on a standard personality test between samples of Old Order Amish and Indiana rural young men from the same county and the decline of homicide in Medieval Europe are used as illustrative examples of the overall approach. It is shown that the decline of homicide is unremarkable under a threshold model while the differences between rural Amish and non-Amish young men are too large to be a plausible outcome of simple genetic selection in which assortative mating by affiliation is equivalent to truncation selection.

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Section: A Model Of (Self-)selectionmentioning

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“…Yet, an Amish studies research front occurred around 1978 to 1982, and on through the 1980s, suggesting a possible future of specialized subareas. Works, such as those by Buck (1978), Cronk (1978Cronk ( / 1981, Crowley (1978), Ericksen andEricksen (1978 and, Enninger (1979), Huffines (1980), and Olshan (1981) In the opening of this article, I suggested that a field reflection must be data-driven. In previous sections, the data point and point and point to several scholars at the center of Amish studies, and these citation data are demanding an examination and assessment.…”

Section: Amish Studies Chronologicallymentioning

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Seventy-Five Years of Amish Studies, 1942 to 2017: A Critical Review of Scholarship Trends (with an Extensive Bibliography)

Anderson¹

2017

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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After 75 years, Amish studies has received no field reviews, an oversight I rectify using several citation analysis techniques. I offer criteria for defining Amish research, which results in 983 references. Amish studies has a very highly centralized core; the top one percent of cited references account for 20% of every citation in Amish studies, with Hostetler, Kraybill, Nolt, and Huntington dominating the top list. Few consolidated subareas exist, exceptions being language and health/population research. Analyzing Amish studies chronologically, the field early on accepted the definitive-sympathetic-authoritative-comprehensive-insider research approach, which legitimated "The Throne" (so-called) in Amish studies, i.e., a central scholar, a few close to him, and the irrelevant hinterlands. The seat was first occupied by Hostetler, then Kraybill. The absence of driving research questions, theory developments, and debates creates place for The Throne, whom scholars often cite to legitimize a given study emerging from an otherwise fragmented field, this field failing to provide scholars self-legitimization. Other troubles with The Throne model are also presented. My call to Amish studies is (1) to develop honed research questions that address specific sub-areas and to consider how any given reference fits into the literature, and (2) to distance our empirical work from fence-straddling popular/scholarly models, e.g. rejecting "the Amish" as a brand name, approaching the Amish as purely scholars and not partially tourists, and foregoing a protective-or reformist-mentality toward the Amish.

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“…Landing (1970) called attention to the absence of Old Order Amish settlements in the U.S. South, which, at the time he wrote, consisted of a few mostly unsuccessful attempts. While the Amish had made a handful of attempts to settle the region from the end of the Civil War on (Crowley 1978), most settlements met extinction after only several years (see Luthy (1986) for detailed accounts of these settlements). The movement of the Old Order groups to a southern state goes back to attempts to create communities in Dickson County, Tennessee (Yoder 1991, 248) and Monroe County, Mississippi (Luthy 1986, 221) in the 1890s.…”

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The Growth of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Communities in Kentucky

Donnermeyer¹,

Anderson²

2015

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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This article examines the growth of Amish and plain Anabaptist communities and population in Kentucky, one of the few southern states with a sizeable plain Anabaptist presence across much of its rural areas. Within the Amish religious tradition, this study focuses on both the broadly defined Old Order Amish, namely, those who prohibit ownership of motor vehicles for transportation, and the Amish-Mennonites, those who allow ownership. We provide an overview of their community formation and present a county-based estimate of their population. There are now 53 Amish communities in Kentucky, and a population of nearly 10,000. Over half (27) of these communities were founded since the turn of the century. Non-Amish, plain Anabaptists constitute 33 congregations. KeywordsOld Order Amish; New Order Amish; Swartzentruber Amish; Amish-Mennonites; Ambassadors Amish-Mennonites; Old Order Mennonites; Conservative Mennonites; Intentional churches; Church districts; Settlements; Community migration NoteThis profile of the Amish is the second in an anticipated series of articles whose intent is to provide regionally based spatial-demographic descriptions of Amish communities. The first described buggy-driving Amish churches in Iowa (Cooksey and Donnermeyer 2013).

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Old Order Amish Settlement: Diffusion and Growth

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Some Uses of Models of Quantitative Genetic Selection in Social Science

Some Uses of Models of Quantitative Genetic Selection in Social Science

Seventy-Five Years of Amish Studies, 1942 to 2017: A Critical Review of Scholarship Trends (with an Extensive Bibliography)

The Growth of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Communities in Kentucky

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