Rumspringa
To Be or Not to Be Amish
Shachtman, Tom
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BOOK SUMMARY
Rumspringa is Tom Shachtmans celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringathe period of running around that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Rumspringa is Tom Shachtmans celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringathe period of running around that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their liveswhether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain in the world.
In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us one of the most absorbing books ever written about the Plain People (Publishers Weekly).
BOOK REVIEWS
[A] wonderfully rich portrait and history of the Amish as a people. Donna Freitas, The Wall Street Journal
Shachtman is like a maestro, masterfully conducting an orchestra of history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and journalism together in a harmonious and evocative symphony of all things Amish. Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0865477426
ISBN(13-digit): 9780865477421
Dewey Decimal: 301
Library of Congress: oc2007173235
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 286
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