![]() ![]() Wagler is truly a gifted writer which makes this memoir beautifully crafted and wonderfully poignant. They have also reduced the number and severity of norms regarding symbols and social mechanisms of separation, including convenience-oriented technologies and distinctive dress (Anderson, “Beachy Amish-Mennonite”). Growing Up Amish (a title that pretty much says it all) records his memories from childhood all the way to his mid-twenties when he eventually broke free of his family and community. They represent the Amish who have chosen to blend evangelical Protestant theology into separatist communalism. ![]() The Amish-Mennonites are a branch within the greater Amish religious tradition. In this study, we explain the phenomenon of Amish-Mennonite international vacationing. And yet, vacationing is now routine among many plain Anabaptists. Indeed, in a 1930s household expenditures survey that included Amish homes in Lancaster County, PA, Amish were more defined by their non-expenditures on leisure than today’s familiar indicators, such as technological restrictions (Reschly). Do America’s plain Anabaptists take vacations? At first glance, it seems unlikely that an austere Christian sect would endorse spending large amounts of money on short excursions of pure leisure. ![]()
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