Writing the Amish : The Worlds of John A. Hostetler

by Weaver-Zercher, David

• ISBN13: 9780271026862
• ISBN10: 0271026863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

"Writing the Amish both recounts and assesses Hostetler's Amish-related work.

Author Biography

John A. Hostetler was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at Temple University, where he taught from 1965 to 1985.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	VII
FOREWORD	IX
Ann Hostetler
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	XIII
David L. Weaver-Zercher
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON JOHN A. HOSTETLER
1. An Amish Beginning	5	(31)
John A. Hostetler, with Susan Fisher Miller
2. The Redemptive Community: An Island of Sanity and Silence	36	(20)
Donald B. Kraybill
3. Plain Folk and Folk Society: John A. Hostetler's Legacy of the Little Community	56	(42)
Simon J. Bronner
4. An Uneasy Calling: John A. Hostetler and the Work of Cultural Mediation	98	(56)
David L. Weaver-Zercher
PART II: WRITINGS OF JOHN A. HOSTETLER	150	(167)
5. Letter to Amish Bishops Concerning Shunning (1944)	154	(7)
6. Toward a New Interpretation of Sectarian Life in America (1951)	161	(11)
7. Excerpt from Amish Life (1952)	172	(10)
8. God Visits the Amish (1954)	182	(7)
9. Why Is Everybody Interested in the Pennsylvania Dutch? (1955)	189	(8)
10. The Amish Use of Symbols and Their Function in Bounding the Community (1964)	197	(18)
11. Persistence and Change Patterns in Amish Society (1964)	215	(18)
12. The Amish Way of Life Is at Stake (1966)	233	(3)
13. Old Order Amish Child Rearing and Schooling Practices: A Summary Report (1970)	236	(15)
14. Folk Medicine and Sympathy Healing Among the Amish (1976)	251	(11)
15. The Amish and the Law: A Religious Minority and Its Legal Encounters (1984)	262	(18)
16. Marketing the Amish Soul (1984)	280	(4)
17. A New Look at the Old Order (1987)	284	(16)
18. Toward Responsible Growth and Stewardship of Lancaster County's Landscape (1989)	300	(17)
THE LIFE OF JOHN A. HOSTETLER: A CHRONOLOGY	317	(4)
THE PUBLICATIONS OF JOHN A. HOSTETLER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY	321	(22)
CONTRIBUTORS	343	(2)
INDEX	345