9781421413716-142141371X-Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

ISBN-13: 9781421413716
ISBN-10: 142141371X
Edition: second edition
Author: Richard A. Stevick
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781421413716
ISBN-10: 142141371X
Edition: second edition
Author: Richard A. Stevick
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies) (ISBN-13: 9781421413716 and ISBN-10: 142141371X), written by authors Richard A. Stevick, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Sociology, Religious Studies, Children's Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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