the role of Women in Amish society is visibly different from that of women in the surrounding communities. While it is true that Amish women are still expected...
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The Amish (/ˈɑːmɪʃ/ , also /ˈæmɪʃ/ or /ˈeɪmɪʃ/; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist...
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interpretation. Amish life has influenced some things in popular culture. As the Amish are divided into the Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, and Beachy Amish, the...
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Nebraska Amish, also called Old Schoolers, are a relatively small affiliation of the Amish. They are the most conservative subgroup of Amish, indicated...
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Amish Mennonites came into existence through reform movements among North American Amish mainly between 1862 and 1878. These Amish moved away from the...
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Over the years, as Amish churches have divided many times over doctrinal disputes, subgroups have developed. The "Old Order Amish", a conservative faction...
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The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an...
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Amish religious practices are reflective of traditional Anabaptist Christian theology. The Old Order Amish typically have worship services every second...
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The Byler Amish, also called Alt Gemee (Old Church), are a small conservative subgroup of the Amish. They are known for the yellow color of their buggies...
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Health among the Amish is characterized by higher incidences of particular genetic disorders, especially among the Old Order Amish. These disorders include...
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Ordnung (category Amish)
In the Anabaptist tradition, an Ordnung is a set of rules describing the way of life of church members. The term is mostly used by Amish and Old Order...
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Kauffman Amish Mennonites, also called Sleeping Preacher Churches or Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches, are a plain, car-driving branch of the Amish Mennonites...
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Devil's Playground (2002 film) (category Amish in popular culture)
several Amish youths who decide whether to remain in or leave their community and faith during the period known as rumspringa ("running around" in Pennsylvania...
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Plain people (category Protestantism in Pennsylvania)
Amish (Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Kauffman Amish Mennonites and Beachy Amish Mennonites), Para-Amish (Believers in Christ, Vernon Community and Caneyville...
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Jakob Ammann (category Swiss Amish people)
between 1712 and 1730) was a Swiss Anabaptist leader and the namesake of the Amish religious movement. The full facts about the personal life of Jacob Ammann...
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Little Christmas (redirect from Women's Christmas)
Twelfth Night, is one of the traditional names among Irish Christians and the Amish for 6 January, which is also known more widely as the Feast of the Epiphany...
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Plain dress (category Modesty in Christianity)
Anabaptist branches: Amish (Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Kauffman Amish Mennonites, Beachy Amish Mennonites), Para-Amish (Believers in Christ, Vernon Community...
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modern conveniences include Anabaptists (and their direct descendants, the Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites) and Judaism. Key beliefs that determine an...
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Scion of Ikshvaku (category Novels by Amish Tripathi)
taking place before the epic tale "Ramayana" and also the fourth book of Amish Tripathi, fourth book of Amishverse, and first book of Ram Chandra Series...
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Mennonites (redirect from Mennonites in the United States)
as the Amish Mennonites or just Amish. In later years, other schisms among Amish resulted in such groups as the Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Kauffman...
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Witness (1985 film) (category Amish in films)
Patti LuPone and Viggo Mortensen (in his feature film debut). Its plot focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her son, who becomes a...
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History of quilting (section Amish quilting)
expression but quiltmaking has allowed Amish women to express their creative natures without giving offence. The Amish communities have always encouraged...
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Shunning (category Punishments in religion)
"Flat Earth Society". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2014. "Why do the Amish practice shunning?". Amish America. Carl...
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Martyrs Mirror (category Amish in Europe)
historically held the most significant and prominent place in Amish and Mennonite homes. In 1745, Jacob Gottschalk arranged with the Ephrata Cloister to...
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Hutterites (redirect from German language in Montana)
Brüder), are a communal ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early...
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Facial hair (section On women)
allowed but shaving them is forbidden. Amish men grow beards after marriage, but continue to shave their moustaches in order to avoid historical associations...
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Bundling (tradition) (category Old Order Amish)
associated with the Amish as a form of courtship. It is possible the precedent for bundling came from the biblical story of Ruth and Boaz, in which Ruth, a...
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Bonnet (headgear) (section Women)
Indians. In addition, types of headgear called bonnets are worn by women as an outer Christian headcovering in some denominations such as the Amish, Mennonite...
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The Amish Mennonite Church, O'Neill, sometimes called the Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite Church, was built in 1888 in Holt County, Nebraska by a group of...
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