Tag: Amish

Keeping up with the Anabaptists

This past weekend, Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies held their annual Amish Conference, which drew a crowd of both Amish enthusiasts and members of the Plain community. This year’s conference focused on the challenges and effects of current technology on the Amish. Speakers at the conference included the authors of The Amish, which ForeWord recently…

New in Anabaptist Studies

The Amish—the companion book to the American Experience documentary on PBS—takes an in-depth look into Amish life in America. Publisher’s Weekly says of The Amish: “The authors successfully address the seeming exoticism of the Amish without sensationalism . . . The scholarship is enlivened with quotes and personal anecdotes, and the final section on the…

New in Anabaptist Studies

The Amish—the companion book to the American Experience documentary on PBS—takes an in-depth look into Amish life in America. Publisher’s Weekly says of The Amish: “The authors successfully address the seeming exoticism of the Amish without sensationalism . . . The scholarship is enlivened with quotes and personal anecdotes, and the final section on the…

Q&A with the authors of THE AMISH

Read on for an informative, sometimes surprising Q&A with Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt, authors of The Amish, the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century. Q: Why did you write this book? A: Mainstream Americans are fascinated by the Amish—and so are we. But despite…

Q&A with the authors of THE AMISH

Read on for an informative, sometimes surprising Q&A with Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt, authors of The Amish, the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century. Q: Why did you write this book? A: Mainstream Americans are fascinated by the Amish—and so are we. But despite…

April news and new books

News and Notes Melissa Block of NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Daniel Webster, co-author of Reducing Gun Violence in America, about the wide variation in gun laws from state to state, and how those laws correspond to gun violence. Ron Coddington, author of African American Faces of the Civil War, is interviewed on The Kojo Nnamdi…

April news and new books

News and Notes Melissa Block of NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Daniel Webster, co-author of Reducing Gun Violence in America, about the wide variation in gun laws from state to state, and how those laws correspond to gun violence. Ron Coddington, author of African American Faces of the Civil War, is interviewed on The Kojo Nnamdi…

Amish Immersion, Part III: A community of traditions and beliefs

The JHU Press has been publishing books on Amish and Anabaptist culture for over 45 years. With this in mind, Donald B. Kraybill, senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College and the driving force behind our groundbreaking series in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, invited editor Greg Nicholl and head publicist Kathy…

Amish Immersion, Part II: What should we wear?

The JHU Press has been publishing books on Amish and Anabaptist culture for over 45 years. With this in mind, Donald B. Kraybill, senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College and the driving force behind our groundbreaking series in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, invited editor Greg Nicholl and head publicist Kathy…

Amish Immersion, Part I: An author confronts the diversity that is the Amish world

The JHU Press has been publishing books on Amish and Anabaptist culture for over 45 years. With this in mind, Donald B. Kraybill, senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College and the driving force behind our groundbreaking series in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, invited editor Greg Nicholl and…