Amish in Their Own Words - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0836191234 ISBN 13: 9780836191233

Publisher: Herald Press, 1999

Synopsis

Brad Igou offers writings by Amish people across North America, compiled from the first 25 years (1968-92) of Family Life, a monthly Amish magazine. He includes letters, articles, history lessons, parables, questions, challenges—a wide spectrum of human experience, from an Amish point of view. Sixteen chapters cover fascinating topics such as shunning, nonresistance, clothing, youth activities, old age, conflicts with the modern world, work, church, humor, and lessons from life.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Brad Igou has combined a quarter-century of Family Life and reproduced Amish-written short pieces on a wide range of subjects: early Anabaptist history, American Amish history, internal conflicts within the community, family relations, child-rearing, worship, nonviolence, and many others. The Amish emerge from these pages much more humanized than they do in the more familiar caricatures; they turn out to be people not so unlike the rest of us, with doubts and disagreements and a sense of humor."

-Nova Religio

About the Author:

Brad Igou first became interested in the Amish of Lancaster County as a tour guide and came to know some Amish personally. He spent three months living with an Amish family as he studied for his sociology-anthropology major at Ithaca (NY) College.

Brad was an English teacher in Japan for eight years. Back home in Lancaster, Brad was employed by Amish Country Tours and started compiling writings from the Amish periodical Family Life. He has become vice president and co-owner of the Amish Experience, a center intrepreting Amish culture to visitors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Herald Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0836191234
• ISBN 13: 9780836191233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Igou Brad