{"product_id":"an-amish-paradox-charles-e-hurst-9780801893988","title":"An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2011 Dale Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compared to its famous cousin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell conducted seven years of fieldwork, including interviews with over 200 residents, to understand the dynamism that drives social change and schism within the settlement, where Amish enterprises and nonfarming employment have prospered. The authors contend that the Holmes County Amish are experiencing an unprecedented and complex process of change as their increasing entanglement with the non-Amish market causes them to rethink their religious convictions, family practices, educational choices, occupational shifts, and health care options. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors challenge the popular image of the Amish as a homogeneous, static, insulated society, showing how the Amish balance tensions between individual needs and community values. They find that self-made millionaires work alongside struggling dairy farmers; successful female entrepreneurs live next door to stay-at-home mothers; and teenagers both embrace and reject the coming-of-age ritual, \u003ci\u003erumspringa\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Amish Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles E. Hurst,David L. McConnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801893984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801893988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011","brand":"Charles E. Hurst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086874554623,"sku":"9780801893988","price":66.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffa81796-a876-4af9-9c4c-5bed79312108.jpg?v=1769097081","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-amish-paradox-charles-e-hurst-9780801893988","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}