{"title":"Eitzen, Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV","authors":"Susan Trollinger","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9511","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Demographic Profile of the Greater Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish","authors":"Joseph F. Donnermeyer","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9154","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a demographic profile of the Amish in the Greater Lancaster County settlement, the oldest extant community and the largest in the world today. A dataset, based on a sample of about one in five households (N = 1,494), was developed from the 2015 directory for the Greater Lancaster settlement. The data is summarized along 10 major topics, including widows and widowers, ordained men, occupations of men, age at first marriage, most popular months for weddings, most popular days for weddings, number of children, birth intervals, stillbirths and infant deaths, and age and sex distribution of the population. The results are compared with the findings from a study of the Lancaster County Amish by Elmer Lewis Smith, published in 1960, that includes selected population statistics from the first half of the twentieth century and information that goes back to the final decade of the nineteenth century. The findings show a great deal of demographic stability; that is, trends in such demographic features as family size show only small, incremental changes. Only infant mortality and the occupations of men have shifted significantly. The article concludes by discussing the need for additional demographic research utilizing directories from other communities, large and small, old and new, and of different Amish groups based on the relative conservatism vs. progressivism of their church disciplines.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buy That Stamp! Letter Writing and Amish Research: A Personal Reflection on a Research Technique","authors":"Karen M. Johnson-Weiner","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9502","url":null,"abstract":"Letter writing is one method researchers can use to build on their in-person fieldwork experience. Through letters, a researcher can approach the Amish in a way that equalizes the exchange, allowing the correspondent the time and space to consider their responses. Moreover, while a visit from a non-Amish researcher interrupts daily activity, reading and writing letters remains a daily activity in the Amish world, especially among Amish women. Researchers may find that correspondence opens new areas of inquiry as Amish writers make connections to topics and subjects the researcher had not considered. By revealing deeper aspects of daily life, correspondence can force researchers to rethink their stereotypes and assumptions. Finally, the author reflects on some of the challenges of correspondence as a research method.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plain Politics: Assessing Old Order Amish Voter Participation in the 2004, 2016, and 2020 Presidential Elections","authors":"Kyle C. Kopko","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9501","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ems, Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins","authors":"Gerald J. Mast, Benuel Riehl, Erik Wesner","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9510","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemics and Echo Chambers: What the Pandemic Teaches Us About Beliefs, Behaviors, and Community","authors":"Rachel E. Stein","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9366","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report on Survey of Researchers Who Study the Amish and Related Groups","authors":"Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9512","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Donald B. Kraybill, Mark L. Louden, Cynthia L. Nolt, Steven M. Nolt, Marcus A. Yoder
{"title":"Front Matter","authors":"Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Donald B. Kraybill, Mark L. Louden, Cynthia L. Nolt, Steven M. Nolt, Marcus A. Yoder","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9516","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tacit Tribes and Soft Allegiances in American Life","authors":"Carl Desportes Bowman","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9513","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors' Introduction","authors":"Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Steven M. Nolt","doi":"10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/jpac.v3i2.9515","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":477300,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Plain Anabaptist communities","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}