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What the Amish Teach Us: Plain Living in a Busy World Hardcover - 2021

by Donald B. Kraybill


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Essays include:

1. Riddles: Negotiating with Modernity
2. Villages: Webs of Well-Being
3. Community: Taming the Big "I"
4. Smallness: Bigness Ruins Everything
5. Tolerance: A Light on a Hill
6. Spirituality: A Back Road to Heaven
7. Family: A Deep and Durable Bond
8. Children: At Worship, Work, and Play
9. Parenting: Raising Sturdy Children
10. Education: The Way It Should Be
11. Apprenticeship: An Old New Idea
12. Technology: Taming the Beast
13. Hacking: Creative Bypasses
14. Entrepreneurs: Starting Stuff
15. Patience: Slow Down and Listen
16. Limits: Less Choice, More Joy
17. Rituals: A Natural Detox
18. Retirement: Aging in Place
19. Forgiveness: Pathway to Healing
20. Suffering: A Higher Plan
21. Nonresistance: No Pushback
22. Death: A Good Farewell

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  • Title What the Amish Teach Us: Plain Living in a Busy World
  • Author Donald B. Kraybill
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date 2021-10-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781421442174 / 1421442175
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.36 x 5.27 x 0.68 in (18.69 x 13.39 x 1.73 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Amish - Conduct of life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020057352
  • Dewey Decimal Code 158.1

About the author

Donald B. Kraybill is distinguished professor and senior fellow emeritus in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. He is the coauthor of The Amish and the author of Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers.

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