The Riddle of Amish Culture

by Donald B. Kraybill

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  Hostetler, John A., and Donald B. Kraybill

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  1994 “Persistence and Change in Amish Education.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

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  1993 “Military Service and Conscription.” In The Amish and the State, edited by Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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  1943 “The Agricultural Stability of the Old Order Amish and the Old Order Mennonites of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.” American Journal of Sociology 49(November):233–41.

  Kraybill, Donald B.

  1987a “At the Crossroads of Modernity: Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren in Lancaster County in 1880.” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10(January):2–12.

  1987b “Mennonite Woman’s Veiling: The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Symbol.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 61(July):298–320.

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  1993 Ed. The Amish and the State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

  1994a “The Amish Encounter with Modernity.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1994b “Plotting Social Change Across Four Affiliations.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1994c “War Against Progress: Coping with Social Change.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1998 “Plain Reservations: Amish and Mennonite Views of Media and Computers.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 13(2):99–110.

  Kraybill, Donald B., and Carl F. Bowman

  2001 On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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., and Donald R. Fitzkee

  1987 “Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren in the Modern Era.” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10(April):2–11.

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  1996 A Quiet Spirit: Amish Quilts from the Collection of Cindy Tietze and Stuart Hodosh. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

  Kraybill, Donald B., John A. Hostetler, and D. G. Shaw

  1986 “Suicide Patterns in a Religious Subculture: The Old Order Amish.” International Journal of Moral and Social Studies 1(Fall):249–63.

  Kraybill, Donald B., and Conrad Kanagy

  1996 “From Milk to Manufacturing: The Rise of Entrepreneurship in Two Old Order Amish Communities.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 70(July): 263–80.

  Kraybill, Donald B., and Steven M. Nolt

  1994 “The Rise of Microenterprises.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1995 Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

  Kraybill, Donald B., and Marc A. Olshan

  1994 The Amish Struggle with Modernity. Hanover: University Press of New England.

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  1991a “Covert Prestige and the Role of English in Plain Pennsylvania German Sociolinguistics.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.

  1991b “The Image of the Old Order Amish: General and Sociolinguistic Stereotypes.” National Journal of Sociology 5(2):111–42.

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  1980 “The Origin of Amish Tourism in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.” Family Life (November):31–34.

  1986 The Amish in America: Settlements That Failed, 1840–1960. Aylmer, Ont.: Pathway Publishers.

  1994a “Appendix: Amish Migration Patterns: 1972–1992.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1994b “The Origin and Growth of Amish Tourism.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1995 Amish Folk Artist, Barbara Ebersol: Her Life, Fraktur, and Death Record Book. Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.

  1996 Amish Settlements Across America: 1996. Aylmer, Ont.: Pathway Publishers.

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  1983b “Stress and the Amish Community in Transition.” Ph.D. diss., Boston University.

  1993 “Education and Schooling.” In The Amish and the State, edited by Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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  1993 “The National Amish Steering Committee.” In The Amish and the State, edited by Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

  1994a “Amish Cottage Industries as Trojan Horse.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1994b “Homespun Bureaucracy: A Case Study in Organizational Evolution.” In T
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  1994c “Modernity, the Folk Society, and the Old Order Amish.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  1994d “What Good Are the Amish?” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

  Olshan, Marc A., and Kimberly D. Schmidt

  1994 “Amish Women and the Feminist Conundrum.” In The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover: University Press of New England.

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