Books in the Center Books in Anabaptist Studies series

In addition, he includes a new chapter describing Amish recreation and social gatherings, and he applies the concept of "social capitalto his sensitive and penetrating interpretation of how the Amish have preserved their social networks and the solidarity of their community.

In this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.

This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.

Umble's analysis of the social meaning of the telephone explores the effect of technology on community identity and the maintenance of cultural values through the regulation of the means of communication.

Their voices and their experiences demonstrate the power of religion to shape identity and social practice.

Yoder case, and law professor Garret Epps, assess the Amish contribution to preserving religious liberty in the United States.

In the first book ever written on the subject, Carl Bowman examines how and why members of the Church of the Brethren-historically known as "Dunkersafter their method of baptism-were assimilated faster and earlier than their Amish, Mennonite, or even Hutterite cousins.

Calvin Redekop and his co-authors argue that Mennonite successes in the business world are the result of skillful adaptation of the sect's "communal ethic."