What the Amish Teach Us
plain living in a busy world
$36.32
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2021
Summary
Lessons from a Simple Life: What the Amish Teach Us
What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot!
It sounds audacious, but it’s true: the Amish have much to teach us. It may seem surreal to turn to one of America’s most traditional groups for lessons about living in a hyper-tech world—especially a horse-driving people who resist “progress” by snubbing cars,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421442174 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421442175 |
| Author: | Donald B. Kraybill |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
For those who know little about the Amish, this gentle but highly intelligent view is all that is needed to get a firm grasp. And for those who know much about these special people, including the Amish themselves, Kraybill has composed a paean to their best qualities that belongs even on the plainest of bookshelves.—Barbara Bamberger Scott, The Book Reporter Network
About The Author
Donald B. Kraybill
Donald B. Kraybill is distinguished professor and senior fellow emeritus in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. He is the coauthor of The Amish and the author of Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers.
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