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The Riddle of Amish Culture

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by Donald B. Kraybill


  Simons, Menno. See Menno Simons

  simplicity, 29, 31, 53, 110, 124, 221, 258, 318

  singing, 128, 146, 151, 178, 189

  tempo of, 122, 124

  in unison, 120, 123

  Sisters Days, 89, 151

  small-scale size, 106–7, 197, 245, 317

  Smoker, Ike, 254

  smoking, 32, 45, 125

  social capital, 31, 72, 143, 155, 176, 193, 325

  and business success, 257–58, 308

  and circles of support, 153–54

  defined, 20

  networks of, 101–6, 142, 143, 144, 277, 317

  preservation of, 21, 160, 188, 212, 221, 301, 321

  replenishing, 149, 150–51, 156, 158, 259

  threats to, 143, 160, 174, 220, 242, 273, 305

  social change, 28, 295–318, 319

  and adaptation, 295–96

  and economic benefits, 303, 321

  innovators of, 305–6

  and moving cultural fences, 297–302

  political context of, 305–7

  regulating, 302–5, 318

  social class, 98, 109–10, 263–67

  social control, 22, 23, 108, 317. See also confessions; shunning

  social interaction, 107–8, 111–12. See also frolics

  socialization, 22, 161, 177, 321

  Social Security, 102, 276–79, 280, 324–25, 327, 329

  exemption from, 257, 267, 277, 278, 313

  rejection of, 12, 273, 326

  social structure, 13, 80–110, 111, 119, 143, 316, 330–32

  Stoltzfus, Gideon, 96

  Stolzfus, Ike, 199–200

  Stolzfus, Mike, 200

  Stolzfus, Stephen F., 167

  submission, 29, 53, 60, 318, 324, 330

  to church, 119, 122, 128

  and confession, 131, 134. See also Gelassenheit

  Sunday, as holy day, 125, 313

  Sunday schools, 15, 25, 96, 190

  Supreme Court, 1972 ruling of, 162, 183, 313

  surnames, 92

  Swiss Anabaptists. See under Anabaptists

  symbolism, 32, 54–79

  synthetic materials, 45, 69, 295, 302, 315

  taxes, 101, 273, 278–80, 327

  “taxis.” See cars

  technology, 25, 26, 31, 131, 188–212, 329

  and buggies, 78–79

  communication, 192, 263, 305, 312, 327

  control of, 52, 197, 258, 307, 318, 321, 328

  electronic, 2, 3, 19

  labor-saving, 46, 51

  ownership vs. use, 208, 217

  as threat to community, 160, 211

  teens. See gangs; youth

  telephones, 113, 189

  ban on, 1, 191, 301

  cell, 19, 126, 195, 311–12

  community, 193, 195, 197

  in homes, 194, 196–97, 295, 298, 311

  use of, 15, 24, 25, 52, 188, 190–92, 212, 215, 268, 299, 302, 315

  use of, vs. visiting, 192–93

  voice mail, 195

  telephone shanties, 193–95, 311

  television, 15, 19, 54, 188, 205

  opposition to, 18, 113, 115, 201, 281, 295, 304, 312, 329

  use in public schools, 172, 178

  Thompson, James H., 166, 167

  thrift, 29, 48–49

  time and pace, 50–51, 72. See also clocks

  tobacco: growing, 13, 230

  use of, 125, 233. See also smoking

  tolerance, 323, 326

  tourism, 10, 78, 240, 241, 281, 284, 324, 327

  and Amish business, 250, 257

  impact of, 291–94

  ironies of, 287–91

  and roadside stands, 290–91, 315

  tractors, 2, 136, 225–28

  ban on, 26, 115, 131

  at the barn, 227–28, 315

  and engines, 231–32

  recall of, 223–25, 298

  use of, 15, 16, 25, 190, 215, 222–28, 240, 301, 304, 315. See also farm machinery: horse-drawn

  tradition, 108, 325

  and change, 50, 52, 112, 197, 198, 232, 297–302, 314

  and conformity, 323–24

  value of, 49–50, 178

  wisdom of, 32, 82

  trains, 213, 215

  transportation, 31, 50, 321

  air, 115, 131, 213, 301, 328

  bicycle, 2, 24, 114, 213, 302, 305

  public, 213, 215, 302. See also bicycles; buggies; cars; horses

  travel, 89–90, 153

  values. See cultural values

  violence, 6, 325, 330

  visiting, 51, 150–51, 155, 192–93

  voting, 136, 274, 275, 302

  weddings, 92, 94, 95, 112, 138, 148–49, 260

  Weir, Peter, 281

  wheel chairs, electric, 115

  Wisconsin v. Yoder. See Supreme Court, 1972 ruling of

  Witness (film) controversy, 280–84

  women, 82, 164

  in business, 84, 246, 261

  dress of, 60–63, 66

  hair styles of, 60, 113

  role of, 83–87, 121

  wood workers, 153

  work, 31, 205–6, 238–67, 322, 329

  Amish attitudes toward, 46–48, 52, 125, 227, 261

  construction, 245, 252–53, 260, 265

  factory, 226, 241–43, 244, 246–47, 255, 314

  field, 46, 85, 225–26, 232, 314

  household, 46, 84, 244–48, 305

  manual, 47, 241

  nonfarm, 160, 244–48, 250, 255, 259, 313, 315, 317, 321

  and play, 151, 152

  shop, 46, 263

  Worker’s Compensation, 102, 183, 257, 273, 276, 279–80, 314

  the world, separation from, 6, 22, 46, 216, 268, 293, 318

  and the church, 44–45, 271, 277

  and community telephones, 193–94, 197

  and helping outsiders, 157–58

  and holding public office, 273, 275

  and preservation of social capital, 21, 321

  and technology, 210–11, 262–63. See also worldliness

  worldliness, 26, 40, 53, 186, 197, 201

  avoidance of, 72, 106, 116

  examples of, 45, 95, 227, 281, 301

  and social change, 28, 298. See also modernity

  worship. See church services

  wrist watches, 43, 64

  youth, 82, 116–19, 145–49, 184–87

  youth groups. See gangs

  zoning laws, 251, 253–54, 284, 285, 306–7, 313, 314

  Zook, Ike, 223

  Zook, Jacob, 165, 173

  Zwingli, Ulrich, 4

  CREDITS

  Photographs by the following photographers appear on the pages listed: Keith Baum, 12, 129; Dennis L. Hughes, 48, 71, 107, 114, 118, 125, 147, 156, 185, 194, 201, 209, 221, 231, 234, 249, 252, 253, 262, 266, 270, 274, 288, 291, 300, 303, 310, 314; Jerry Irwin, 316 (courtesy of the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau); Lucian Niemeyer, 177, 218, 226; Richard K. Reinhold, 14, 20, 35, 42, 59, 85, 159, 181, 282; Charles S. Rice, 163 Blair Seitz, iv, 5 (courtesy of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society), 24, 39, 62, 64, 75, 91, 109, 149, 204, 211; Shirley Glick Wenger, 28, 87, 152. A cartoon by Charles Beyl appears on page 214. Drawings by Linda Eberly appear on pages 7, 11, 17, 18, 25, 31, 89, 100, 143, 179, 242, 257, 308. Photographs courtesy of the following sources appear on the pages listed: Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., 170; Wide World Photos, 133.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Donald B. Kraybill’s many books on Anabaptist groups include The Upside-Down Kingdom (1990), which received the national Religious Book Award, and The Amish Struggle with Modernity (1994). He edited the award-winning The Amish and the State (1993) and coauthored Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life (1993); Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism (1994); and Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (1995). His most recent books are On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (2001) and Anabaptist World USA (2001). Kraybill is a professor of sociology and
Anabaptist studies at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

  CENTER BOOKS IN ANABAPTIST STUDIES

  Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a “Peculiar People”

  Carl F. Bowman

  Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America

  Perry Bush

  Amish Roots: A Treasury of History, Wisdom, and Lore

  John A. Hostetler, ed.

  The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life

  Julia Kasdorf

  The Riddle of Amish Culture, rev. ed.

  Donald B. Kraybill

  The Amish and the State

  Donald B. Kraybill, ed.

  On the Backroad to Heaven:

  Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren

  Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman

  Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits

  Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt

  Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life

  Lucian Niemeyer and Donald B. Kraybill

  Hutterite Beginnings:

  Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation

  Werner O. Packull

  Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition

  Benjamin W. Redekop and Calvin W. Redekop, eds.

  Mennonite Entrepreneurs

  Calvin Redekop, Stephen C. Ainlay, and Robert Siemens

  Creation and the Environment:

  An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World

  Calvin Redekop, ed.

  The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910

  Steven D. Reschly

  Amish and Mennonite Women in History

  Kimberly D. Schmidt, Steven D. Reschly, and Diane Zimmerman Umble

  Holding the Line:

  The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life

  Diane Zimmerman Umble

  The Amish in the American Imagination

  David Weaver-Zercher

 

 

 


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