Contents
List of Tables and Diagrams
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Who Are the Wenger Mennonites?
2. The Fabric of Faith and Culture
3. Mobility and Identity
4. The Architecture of Community
5. The Rhythm of Sacred Ritual
6. Passages from Birth to Death
7. Making a Living Together
8. Technology and Social Change
9. Pilgrims in a Postmodern World
Appendixes
Notes
Selected References
Index
Photo Credits
Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. He is a nationally recognized scholar on Anabaptist groups and has written or edited more than eighteen books, including The Riddle of Amish Culture (1989; rev. ed. 2001) and Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (1995; rev. ed. 2004). James P. Hurd is Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Bethel University. An anthropologist by training, he has done fieldwork in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and rural Pennsylvania.
“Until now there has not been a comprehensive work on Old Order
Mennonite life and culture. With this book Kraybill and Hurd
provide not only the first such study, but a first-rate one.
Authoritative and accessible, Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites offers
rich detail and illuminating comparative analysis. Especially
insightful is the authors’ exploration of the connections between
mobility and identity.”—Steven M. Nolt,Goshen College
“The book is superbly written, giving an insightful, thorough,
detailed portrayal of Old Order Mennonite life. It is the first of
its kind, a monumental contribution.”—John F. Peters Catholic
Historical Review
“Kraybill and Hurd ask all the right questions and answer them in
an unaffected yet authoritative fashion. They guide readers through
the thicket of church controversies and divisions that led to the
birth of the Wengers, and help explain what otherwise appears to be
an arbitrary and uneven resistance to modernity.”—M. A. Olshan
Choice
“A few writers have produced books about Old Order Mennonite life,
but none as comprehensive as this. This thorough sociological study
is the first of its kind of the Wenger Mennonites, the largest of
the Old Order Mennonite groups. . . . This book is essential
reading for students of American religion and of alternative or
sectarian societies. . . . This book belongs in both academic and
church libraries, but anyone with more than a casual interest in
plain-sect churches will find this book informative and, in places,
either disturbing or inspiring, or both.”—J. Craig Haas
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
“This book is a valuable contribution to the sociology and
anthropology of religion, as well as to Anabaptist studies.
Furthermore, scholars of communications and rhetoric should also
take note of this book as empirical study of how community conflict
is engaged and resolved.”—Jeff Gingerich Mennonite Quarterly
Review
“Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern
World is a welcome addition to Anabaptist studies. The specialist
and the undergraduate college student will profit from it.”—B.
Richard Page American Journal of General Education
“For those of us who study outsider or dissenting religious
communities, this volume provides an excellent scholarly model that
might be applied in instructive ways to other religious
movements.”—Stephen J. Stein Journal of Religion
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