Author: Indiana. Department of Commerce. Economic Research Division
Publisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Indiana Community Profiles: Northern community profiles
Author: Indiana. Department of Commerce. Economic Research Division
Publisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Publisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Housing and Planning References
Author:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Housing and Planning References
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Shipshewana
Author: Dorothy O. Pratt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A cultural history of a northern Indiana Amish community and its success in maintaining itself and resisting assimilation into the larger culture. While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them through the prism of their belief in collective salvation based on purity, separation, and perseverance. Would anything new add or detract from the community’s long-term purpose? Seen through this prism, most innovation has been found wanting. Founded in 1841, Shipshewana benefited from LaGrange County’s relative isolation. As Dorothy O. Pratt shows, this isolation was key to the community’s success. The Amish were able to develop a stable farming economy and a social structure based on their own terms. During the years of crisis, 1917–1945, the Amish worked out ways to protect their boundaries that would not conflict with their basic religious principles. As conscientious objectors, they bore the traumas of World War I, struggled against the Compulsory School Act of 1921, negotiated the labyrinth of New Deal bureaucracy, and labored in Alternative Service during World War II. The story Pratt tells of the postwar years is one of continuing difficulties with federal and state regulations and challenges to the conscientious objector status of the Amish. The necessity of presenting a united front to such intrusions led to the creation of the Amish Steering Committee. Still, Pratt notes that the committee’s effect has been limited. Crisis and abuse from the outer world have tended only to confirm the desire of the Amish to remain a people apart, and lends a special poignancy to this engrossing tale of resistance to the modern world. “In this careful community study, Pratt (a professor and assistant dean at Notre Dame) analyzes the tension between assimilation and cultural distinctiveness among the northern Indiana Amish in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . A worthy case study of resistance to change.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A cultural history of a northern Indiana Amish community and its success in maintaining itself and resisting assimilation into the larger culture. While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them through the prism of their belief in collective salvation based on purity, separation, and perseverance. Would anything new add or detract from the community’s long-term purpose? Seen through this prism, most innovation has been found wanting. Founded in 1841, Shipshewana benefited from LaGrange County’s relative isolation. As Dorothy O. Pratt shows, this isolation was key to the community’s success. The Amish were able to develop a stable farming economy and a social structure based on their own terms. During the years of crisis, 1917–1945, the Amish worked out ways to protect their boundaries that would not conflict with their basic religious principles. As conscientious objectors, they bore the traumas of World War I, struggled against the Compulsory School Act of 1921, negotiated the labyrinth of New Deal bureaucracy, and labored in Alternative Service during World War II. The story Pratt tells of the postwar years is one of continuing difficulties with federal and state regulations and challenges to the conscientious objector status of the Amish. The necessity of presenting a united front to such intrusions led to the creation of the Amish Steering Committee. Still, Pratt notes that the committee’s effect has been limited. Crisis and abuse from the outer world have tended only to confirm the desire of the Amish to remain a people apart, and lends a special poignancy to this engrossing tale of resistance to the modern world. “In this careful community study, Pratt (a professor and assistant dean at Notre Dame) analyzes the tension between assimilation and cultural distinctiveness among the northern Indiana Amish in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . A worthy case study of resistance to change.” —Publishers Weekly
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Indiana Population and Housing Profiles
Author: Indiana University. Bureau of Business Research
Publisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Publisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Profiles of America
Author: Grey House Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884925269
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884925269
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Directory of Data Sources
Author: Indiana. State Planning Services Agency
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Category : Government information
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Publisher:
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Category : Government information
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Profiles of America: Indiana, Ohio
Author:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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