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Kraybill, Donald B.
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Conduct of life.
Amish -- Conduct of life.
Amish.
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Kraybill, Donald B.
Conduct of life.
Amish -- Conduct of life.
Amish.
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What
the
Amish
teach
us
:
plain
living
in a
busy
world
/ Donald B. Kraybill.
by
Kraybill, Donald B.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Call #:
248.4897 K91w
Subjects
Conduct of life.
Amish
-- Conduct of life.
Amish
.
ISBN:
9781421442174 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Plain
living
in a
busy
world
.
What
the
Amish
teach
us
Description:
xiv, 182 p. ; 19 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"It sounds audacious, but it's true: the
Amish
have much to
teach
us
. It may seem surreal to turn to one of America's most traditional groups for lessons about
living
in a hyper-tech world--especially a horse-driving people who resist 'progress' by snubbing cars, public grid power, and high school education. Still, their wisdom confirms that even when they seem so far behind, they're out ahead of the rest of
us
. Having spent four decades researching
Amish
communities, Donald B. Kraybill is in a unique position to share important lessons from these fascinating
Plain
people. In this inspiring book, we learn intriguing truths about community, family, education, faith, forgiveness, aging, and death from real
Amish
men and women. The
Amish
are ahead of
us
, for example, in relying on apprenticeship education. They have also out-Ubered Uber for nearly a century, hiring cars owned and operated by their neighbors. Kraybill also explains how the
Amish
function in modern society by rejecting new developments that harm their community, accepting those that enhance it, and adapting others to fit their values. Pairing storytelling with informative and reflective passages, these twenty-two essays offer a critique of modern culture that is provocative yet practical. In a time when civil discourse is raw and coarse and our social fabric seems torn asunder,
What
the
Amish
Teach
Us
uproots our assumptions about progress and prods
us
to question why we do
what
we do."--From publisher.
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