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The AmishView
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by John A. Hostetler
  paper, 48 pages, $8.95
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This edition of The Amish updates a classic resource with rich, full-color photos portraying Amish life today. Hostetler's clear explanations of Amish lifestyle and beliefs are brought up to date by his daughter, Ann Hostetler, and Steven Nolt, a history professor with expertise on the Amish.

Topisc include Amish roots and values, worship, family and community, food and hospitality, bonnets and broad brims, and many more.

Over 700,000 copies of earlier editions of this booklet have been sold. Now this completely revised edition maintains the qualities which have made The Amish popular for a generation while updating the text and photos. Revised 2013.

 
Amish Women: Lives and StoriesView
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by Louise Stoltzfus
  paper, 123 pages, $8.95
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Women
Little has been written about Amish women. How are they regarded within their highly structured community? How whole are they as individuals? This insightful, gentle probing, yet always respectful, text opens a door to this nearly hidden world. Profiles 10 Amish women; written by a woman reared in an Amish family. 
An Amish AlphabetView
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by Ingrid Hess
  hardcover, 32 pages, $17.95
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Children
A is for Amish; B is for barn raising; C is for church. What is it like to be Amish? In this delightful and whimsical full-color book, author and illustrator Ingrid Hess offers an entertaining yet informative introduction to Amish faith and life. In a style that will capture the imaginations of children and adults alike, Hess takes readers behind the scenes and invited them to think about living out faith in new ways.

Author and illustrator Hess uses cut paper to create visually intriguing examples of Amish life.

Copyright 2012 MennoMedia

 
Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and MennonitesView
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by Donald B. Kraybill
  hardcover, 328 pages, $35.00
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Donald B. Kraybill has spent his career among Anabaptist groups, gaining an unparalleled understanding of these traditionally private people. Kraybill shares that deep knowledge in this succinct overview of the beliefs and cultural practices of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America.

Found throughout Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the United States, these religious communities include more than 200 different groups with 800,000 members in 17 countries. Through 340 short entries, Kraybill offers readers information on a wide range of topics related to religious views and social practices. With thoughtful consideration of how these diverse communities are related, this compact reference provides a brief and accurate synopsis of these groups in the twenty-first century.

No other single volume provides such a broad overview of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Organized for ease of searching-with a list of entries, a topic finder, an index of names, and ample cross-references-the volume also includes abundant resources for accessing additional information.

Copyright 2010 John Hopkins University Press

 
Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish SchoolView
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by John Ruth
  paperback, 152 pages, $10.95
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Lancaster County
John L Ruth's sensitive and thoughtful meditation on the horrific events of October 2, 2006, reflects on the response of the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a gunman killed himself, five school children, and wounded five others. The tragic crime evoked expressions of shock and sympathy worldwide. But even many Christians were stunned when the Amish community, in the midst of its grieving, offered words of forgiveness toward the dead killer and his family.

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

 
Mennonite Experience in America SeriesView
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Land, Piety, Peoplehood
by Richard K. MacMaster
paper, 344 pages, $19.95
Richard K. MacMaster follows the Mennonite migration to the New World and analyzes the ecomonic, social, political, and religious forces which drove these people out of the Old World into America. Mac Master paints a portrait of the lives of the early American Mennonite people: Their wealth, migration patterns, social structures, family patterns, and changing attitudes toward education. He traces the influence of such movements as Pietism on these people and shows how they fit into the total context of colonial and revolutionary America. Volume 1.
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Vision, Doctrine, War
by James C. Juhnke
paper, 396 pages, $19.95
James C. Juhnke explores the story of Mennonites and Amish in America from 1890 to 1930. He reveals how Mennonites responded to the challenges of war as well as doctrinal and cultural changes.

In the four decades covered, American Mennonites nearly doubled in membership. Their encounters with Protestant revivalism, organizational techniques, modernism, and World War I affected each group differently. Volume 3.

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by James C. Juhnke
paperback, 396 pages, $8.00
This is a used book in excellent condition. There is no writing or ripped pages in the book.
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Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970
by Paul Toews
paper, 448 pages, $19.95
This volume provides a rich interpretive story of how Mennonites have preserved their identity through the 20th century.

Paul Toews examines ways progressive Mennonites have slowed their absorption into American culture through creating institutional systems, refining and rearticulating ideologies, building ecumenical alliances, and developing a service and missional activism. Meanwhile, the Amish have formed a creative set of adaptive strategies that permit economic integration and social isolation.

An in-depth look at how Mennonites nad Amish were able to become a more visible and respected people than ever before during their more than 300 years in America. Volume 4.

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The Mennonite Experience in America Series weaves together the histories of all Mennonite and Amish groups in the United States. It offers something new in Mennonite and Amish history: an attempt to tell not only the inside story but also how one religious people, or set of peoples, has lived and developed along with the pluralism of the nation. 
Miss NancyView
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by Harvey Yoder
  paperback, 276 pages, $11.95
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The Amish are widely known and appreciated for their quiet industry, their religious devotion, and their unique culture, but they have rarely produced stories of cross-cultural missionaries. Until now, that is. Miss Nancy is the inspiring and fascinating story of God's work in the life on one Amish missionary to Belize. As a result of her years of selfless service to the small Central American nation, Miss Nancy Coblentz is known and loved by thousands, from street waifs to statement, from paupers to a prime minister. Whether in drudgery, danger, or success, Miss Nancy's dauntless faith and devotion have inspired and challenged countless people. Her story is both entertaining and edifying. As you read it, you will be amazed at the God who uses ordinary people to produce extraordinary results.

COpyright 2009 Christian Aid Ministries

 
Amish Music Variety: from harmonica to hymns.View
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  Amish Music Variety: from harmonica to hymns CD
CD, 41 min, $15.95
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 Song NameTime
SampleThe Spirit's Sword, Part I2:31
SampleIn The Sweet By And By1:08
SampleEach Day I'll Do A Golden Deed1:49
SampleTune 250:51
SampleThe Spirit's Sword, Part II1:44
SampleWork For The Night Is Coming1:08
SampleThere Is Not Another1:24
SampleSo I Keep On Singing4:22
SamplePreaching Chant1:08
SampleO God Father1:51
SampleLet Us Pray For Each Other1:09
SampleNellie Gray1:07
SampleJesus Christ The Son Of God2:53
SampleUnser Vater Tune1:23
SampleChrist The Lamb, Part I2:37
SamplePrayer Chant0:59
SampleChrist The Lamb, Part II2:35
SampleMust I Go Empty-Handed?1:12
SampleDaddy's Hands2:33
SampleMy Ways Are Not Your Ways2:16
SampleWhen The Day Is Ended2:48
SampleI Need No Mansion0:49
Audio samples require an mp3 format player.

Songs include: Ausbund p. 354, part I; (harmonica) In the Sweet By and By; Each Day I'll Do a Golden Deed; (zither) half slow tune; Ausbund 354 pt. II; (harmonica) Work for the Night is Coming; trio) His Love is an Endless Love; Ausbund 378; Chant preaching excerpt; O Gott Vater; (harmonica) Let Us Pray for Each Other; (harmonica) Nellie Gray; Ausbund p. 217; (zither) half slow tune; Ausbund p. 604 pt I; Chanted prayer excerpt; Ausbund pt 604 part II; (harmonica) Must I Go Away Empty Handed; (trio) Daddy's Hands; Thy Ways Are Not My Ways; When the Day is Ended; (harmonica) I Need No Mansion Here Below.

 
Real PeopleView
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by A. Martha Denlinger
  paper, 96 pages, $8.95
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Lancaster County
A. Martha Denlinger explains the beliefs and practices of both the Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She answers many of the questions that visitors to Amish country often ask. Revised 1993. 
Amish HarmonicaView
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  CD, 12 minutes, $7.95
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 Song NameTime
SampleIn The Sweet By And By1:05
SampleLet Us Pray For Each Other Of The City Of Light1:05
SampleI Need No Mansions Here Below1:37
SampleMy Old Kentucky Home1:34
SampleMust I Go Empty-Handed?1:09
SampleWe Are Going Down The Valley One By One1:10
SampleDarlin' Nellie Gray1:02
SampleThe Love Of God1:00
SampleAmazing Grace0:46
SampleWork For The Night Is Coming1:04
Audio samples require an mp3 format player.

This album represents a sampling of folk and hymn tunes Amish enjoy on the harmonica. They probably were first learned in school from non-Amish teachers before Amish established their own schools in the 1950's. Tunes on this recording have slight variations, a legacy from the persecution of the past centuries.

The harmonica is played by a young wife and mother. She played these songs as a teenager when she was "running around" with the young people at singings. The harmonica is the same one she used as a teenager, with no half steps. She now lives in a more liberal community where recording is permitted if done anonymously.

Copyright 2001.

 
20 Most Asked Questions About the Amish and MennonitesDetails...
A History of the AmishDetails...
A Quiet and Peaceable LifeDetails...
Amish and Amish Mennonite GenealogiesDetails...
Amish ChildrenDetails...
Amish Enterprise: From Plows to ProfitsDetails...
Amish Houses and BarnsDetails...
Amish LifeDetails...
Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations; The Estates Where They Lived; Their FamiliesDetails...
Amish Roots: A Treasure of History, Wisdom, and LoveDetails...
Amish SocietyDetails...
An Amish Portrait: Song of a PeopleDetails...
Dora's DiaryDetails...
History of the First Amish Mennonite Communities in AmericaDetails...
Living Without ElectricityDetails...
On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and BrethrenDetails...
Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of OhioDetails...
Plain and Amish: An Alternative to Modern PessismismDetails...
Plain BuggiesDetails...
Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and IdentityDetails...
Reuben SeriesDetails...
Rosanna of the AmishDetails...
Strangers At Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in HistoryDetails...
The Amish and the StateDetails...
The Amish Back Roads to Heaven: The Story of Pennsylvania's Amish CommunitesDetails...
The Amish in Their Own WordsDetails...
The Amish SchoolDetails...
The Amish-Mennonites of Waldeck and WittgensteinDetails...
The Amish: A People of PreservationDetails...
The Amish: Why They Enchant UsDetails...
The Happening: Nickel Mines School TragedyDetails...
The Puzzles of Amish LifeDetails...
The Riddle of Amish CultureDetails...
Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite SchoolsDetails...
Why do They Dress that Way?Details...
Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. HostetlerDetails...

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