Beyond the Plain And Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives - Couverture rigide

The Kent State University Press

 
9780873388801: Beyond the Plain And Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives
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ISBN 10 : 0873388801 ISBN 13 : 9780873388801
Editeur : Kent State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customs

Pauline Stevick has visited more than 50 Amish homes in numerous Amish settlements across the country. She has attended weddings, viewings, school sessions and programs, family gatherings, and more than a dozen church services. She has ridden in Amish carriages and has even slept in Amish homes. Through her close association with the Amish, she has gained unique perspective and is able to provide keen insight into a culture that is misunderstood by many.

Beyond the Plain and Simple reminds readers that although the Amish dress in almost identical clothing, they have distinct personalities and convictions. In vignettes and reflections she reveals the ways in which members of the Amish community live out their faith against the background of their communal culture, all the while emphasizing their individuality. Topics range from Amish family values to women to a retirement community in Florida to an Amish intellectual. Stevick's eloquent narration is descriptive rather than expository as she often draws comparisons between Amish society and mainstream society, sometimes preferring the Amish ways and at other times questioning them. Beyond the Plain and Simple portrays the Amish as dynamic people who experience struggles, failures, and successes not unique to their community.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pauline Stevick is adjunct instructor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, where she has taught courses on faith and fiction, short story, and the literature of nature. She completed her undergraduate work at Roberts Wesleyan College, earned her masters from Millersville University, and has done extensive work at the doctoral level at Penn State University.

Freiman Stolzfus, a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, native, has illustrated numerous books about the Amish.

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Éditeur
Kent State University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0873388801
ISBN 13 
9780873388801
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
159
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Personne responsable
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