Stevick Growing Up Amish

The Rumspringa Years
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1372-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Accurately reveals the challenges faced by Amish youth caught between the expectations of traditional community and the pressures and temptations of adolescence.

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 exposed to a world that did not exist for them only a few years ago. Once hidden in physical mailboxes, announcements of weekend parties are now posted on Facebook. Today, thousands of Youngie in large Amish settlements are dedicated smartphone and Internet users, forcing them to navigate carefully between technology and religion. Updated photographs throughout this edition of Growing Up Amish include a screenshot from an Amish teenager's Facebook page.

In the second edition of Growing Up Amish, Stevick draws on decades of experience working with and studying Amish adolescents across the United States to produce this well-rounded, definitive, and realistic view of contemporary Amish youth. Besides discussing the impact of smartphones and social media usage, he carefully examines work and leisure, rites of passage, the rise of supervised youth groups, courtship rituals, weddings, and the remarkable Amish retention rate. Finally, Stevick contemplates the potential of electronic media to significantly alter traditional Amish practices, culture, and staying power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stevick, Richard A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Amish Life: Plain but Not So Simple
2. Religion: Transmitting the Faith
3. Adolescence: Building an Amish Identity
4. Schooling: Read'n, Rite'n, 'Rithmatic— but Shunning Darwin
5. Parenting: Holding On and Letting Go
6. Teen Culture: Working Hard and Having Fun
7. Singings: The First Step to Independence
8. Rumspringa: Stepping Out and Running About
9. Courtship: Looking for Love
10. Weddings: High Times in Plain Places
11. The Future: Keeping Faith in a World of Change
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stevick, Richard A.
Richard A. Stevick is professor emeritus of psychology at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Richard A. Stevick is a professor emeritus of psychology at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.