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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58721244 Title: Writing the Amish : the worlds of John A. Hostetler Author: David Weaver-Zercher Publisher: University Park : The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0271026863 9780271026862 OCLC:58721244

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Writing the Amish : the worlds of John A. Hostetler

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Writing the Amish : the worlds of John A. Hostetler

Author:	David Weaver-Zercher
Publisher:	University Park : The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2005.
Series:	Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society; Pennsylvania German history and culture series
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : State or province government publication : English
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Named Person:	John Andrew Hostetler
Material Type:	Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	David Weaver-Zercher Find more information about:
ISBN:	0271026863 9780271026862
OCLC Number:	58721244
Description:	xviii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Part I. Perspectives on John A. Hostetler. 1. An Amish beginning / John A. Hostetler, with Susan Fisher Miller -- 2. The redemptive community: an island of sanity and silence / Donald B. Kraybill -- 3. Plain folk and folk society: John A. Hostetler's legacy of the little community / Simon J. Bronner -- 4. An uneasy calling: John A. Hostetler and the work of cultural mediation / David L. Weaver-Zercher -- Part II. Writings of John A. Hostetler. 5. Letter to Amish bishops concerning shunning (1944) -- 6. Toward a new interpretation of sectarian life in America (1951) -- 7. Excerpt from Amish life (1952) -- 8. God visits the Amish (1954) -- 9. Why is everybody interested in the Pennsylvania Dutch? (1955) -- 10. The Amish use of symbols and their function in bounding the community (1964) -- 11. Persistence and change patterns in Amish society (1964) -- 12. The Amish way of life is at stake (1966) -- 13. Old Order Amish child rearing and schooling practices: a summary report (1970) -- 14. Folk medicine and sympathy healing among the Amish (1976) -- 15. The Amish and the law: a religious minority and its legal encounters (1984) -- 16. Marketing the Amish soul (1984) -- 17. A new look at the Old Order (1987) -- 18. Toward responsible growth and stewardship of Lancaster County's landscape (1989) -- The life of John A. Hostetler: a chronology -- The publications of John A. Hostetler: a bibliography.
Series Title:	Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society; Pennsylvania German history and culture series
Responsibility:	edited by David L. Weaver-Zercher.
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