The Amish have regularly struggled with the trendy global. identified for his or her easy garments, undeniable way of life, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish groups constantly face outdoor pressures to change their cultural styles, social association, and non secular global view. An intimate portrait of Amish existence, The Amish explores not just the rising range and evolving identities inside this special American ethnic neighborhood, but additionally its transformation and geographic expansion.

Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years gaining knowledge of Amish historical past, faith, and tradition. Drawing on archival fabric, direct observations, and oral heritage, the authors supply an authoritative and delicate figuring out of Amish society.

Amish humans don't evangelize, but their numbers in North the USA have grown from a small group of a few 6,000 humans within the early 1900s to a thriving inhabitants of greater than 275,000 this day. the biggest populations are present in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, with extra groups in twenty-seven different states and Ontario.

The authors argue that the intensely deepest and insular Amish have devised inventive how one can negotiate with modernity that experience enabled them to thrive in the USA. The transformation of the Amish within the American mind's eye from "backward bumpkins" to media icons poses provocative questions. What does the Amish tale exhibit concerning the American personality, pop culture, and mainstream values? Richly illustrated, The Amish is the definitive portrayal of the Amish in the United States within the twenty-first century.