The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)
By Professor Donald B. Kraybill.
Description
• Why will the Amish ride in cars but refuse to drive them? • How can their old-fashioned farms turn a profit while many modern farms go broke? • Do they ever change their customs? Who decides, and how? • If they'll use pay phones, why not have a phone in the house? • Why will they use electronic calculators but not computers?The Amish are one of America's most intriguing and puzzling communities. To the outsider, their habits and customs abound with contradictions. But the most intriguing puzzle of all is the secret of their survival in the twentieth cen...
ISBN(s)
0801836824, 9780801836824
