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This book is a fascinating look at a look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa-the period of "running around" that begins for Amish youth at 16. Thru vivid portraits of teens in Ind., Ohio, & Penn., Shachtman offers an account of this aspect of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching & questing of adolescence. The trappings of the Amish way of life-the plain clothes & electricity-free farms-conceal a mystery: how the Amish manage to retain their young people & pertetuate their way of life for generation after generation. The key to this puzzle is the rumspringa, when Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting w/the larger world & its temptations: alcohol, premarital sex, phones, drugs, wild parties, & higher education. By allowing these broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives-whether to be baptized in the Amish church & forever give up worldly ways or to remain out in the world. Based on interviews & research conducted for a documentary...
Paperback 286 pages. c. 2006 Northpoint Press.
ISBN: 13-978-0-86547-742-1.
Book is used with initials inside front cover & slight crease in bottom front cover, but otherwise in excellent shape. Comes from my home where my husband smokes & I have pets.
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