Browsing Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies: Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 2017) by Title
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The Functionalist Problem in Kraybill's Riddle of Amish Culture
Billig, Michael S.; Zook, Elam ( 2017 )Much of contemporary Amish scholarship manifests an implicit functionalist paradigm that harkens back to mid-20th-century social science. This perspective tends toward optimistic, even "Panglossian," explanation of traits, ... -
Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World By Royden Loewen
Zimmerman, Janelle ( 2017 ) -
More Than Forty Amish Affiliations? Charting the Fault Lines
Petrovich, Christopher ( 2017 )The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliations is important to researchers: as a suitable measurement of conservatism, as a useful context for making sense of a ... -
Paradigmatic Paradigm Problems: Theory Issues in Amish Studies
Reschly, Steven ( 2017 )Scholars of Amish history and culture, and scholars of Anabaptist and Anabaptist-descent groups more generally, have not engaged consistently or productively with mainstream theoretical developments in social and cultural ... -
Reviving the Demographic Study of the Amish
Colyer, Corey; Anderson, Cory; Stein, Rachel; Donnermeyer, Joseph F.; Wasao, Samson ( 2017 )The Amish exhibit distinctive demographic patterns, notably high fertility. While scholars have studied Amish population dynamics for more than a half century, recent research in this area is limited. We believe the time ... -
Seventy-Five Years of Amish Studies, 1942 to 2017: A Critical Review of Scholarship Trends (with an Extensive Bibliography)
Anderson, Cory ( 2017 )After 75 years, Amish studies has received no field reviews, an oversight I rectify using several citation analysis techniques. I offer criteria for defining Amish research, which results in 983 references. Amish studies ...
