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New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
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In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage. While the Amish settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are internationally known, the Amish population in New York, the result of internal migration from those more established settlements, is more fragmentary and less visible to all but their nearest non-Amish neighbors. All of the Amish currently living in New York are post–World War II migrants from points to the south and west. Many came seeking cheap land, others as a result of schism in their home communities. The Old Order Amish of New York are relative newcomers who, while representing an old or plain way of life, are bringing change to the state.

So that readers can better understand where the Amish come from and their relationship to other Christian groups, New York Amish traces the origins of the Amish in the religious confrontation and political upheaval of the Protestant Reformation and describes contemporary Amish lifestyles and religious practices. Johnson-Weiner welcomes readers into the lives of Amish families in different regions of New York State, including the oldest New York Amish community, the settlement in the Conewango Valley, and the diverse settlements of the Mohawk Valley and the St. Lawrence River Valley. The congregations in these regions range from the most conservative to the most progressive. Johnson-Weiner reveals how the Amish in particular regions of New York realize their core values in different ways; these variations shape not only their adjustment to new environments but also the ways in which townships and counties accommodate—and often benefit from—the presence of these thriving faith communities.

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Release dateMay 2, 2017
ISBN9781501708138
New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State

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    Karen M. Johnson-Weiner has spent twenty-five years researching and observing the Amish communities of upstate New York and in this book, she highlights and catalogues the marked diversity of the plain communities there, ranging from the conservative Swartzentruber to the more theologically progressive Swiss Amish.

    Each chapter looks at a community or communities of Amish in a certain locale in upstate New York and assesses their history, beliefs, and economy. The last two chapters looks at the challenges facing the Amish in particular settling in New York and the future of the communities respectively.

    This book is an interesting and unique study; much has been written on the Amish of Lancaster County, PA, and with Johnson-Weiner's scholarship on the New York communities general scholarship on the Amish is improved.

    It is also a fascinating window on the lives of the Amish, eschewing stereotypes that plague modern views of the Amish and reflects Johnson-Weiner's esteem in the communities that such a well-researched book drawing on many Amish sources and interviews can be published.
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    A complete history of the Amish from their European inception to America and the present (date of publication). I now understand my former summer neighbors' diversity and complexity.

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