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Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years
Richard A. Stevick
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Description for Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years
Paperback. Finally, Stevick contemplates the potential of electronic media to significantly alter traditional Amish practices, culture, and staying power. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99; HRCV; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later they begin Rumspringa-that brief period during which they are free to date and explore the outside world before choosing whether to embrace a lifetime of Amish faith and culture. But the Internet and social media may be having a profound influence on significant numbers of the Youngie, according to Richard A. Stevick, who says that Amish teenagers are now ... Read more
On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later they begin Rumspringa-that brief period during which they are free to date and explore the outside world before choosing whether to embrace a lifetime of Amish faith and culture. But the Internet and social media may be having a profound influence on significant numbers of the Youngie, according to Richard A. Stevick, who says that Amish teenagers are now ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Condition
New
Weight
538g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413716
SKU
V9781421413716
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About Richard A. Stevick
Richard A. Stevick is a professor emeritus of psychology at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years
Should be required reading for anyone within Amish studies... Engaging, forthright in a fashion that rings authentic, a truth-telling...
Denise Reiling
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Denise Reiling
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies