Diane Zimmerman Umble is a professor of communication at Millersville University, author of Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life, and coeditor of Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, both published by Johns Hopkins. David Weaver-Zercher is an associate professor of American religious history at Messiah College and author of The Amish in the American Imagination, also published by Johns Hopkins.

This is a finely crafted edited volume that should be easily adapted in undergraduate as well as graduate-level courses. The authors write with a knowledge and sensitivity to the topic that is refreshing and that scholars and students should appreciate. Church History 2009 What I appreciate most is the extent to which this book is able to explain Amish life... while also showing how their technological hesitancy complicates the multifaceted process of media mediation. The Amish and the Media should be of great interest to scholars and generally educated readers drawn to North American religion and the media. -- Willaim D. Romanowski Mennonite Quarterly Review 2009

• Introduction: The Amish and the Culture of MediationPart I: The Old Order Amish as Media ImagesChapter 1. Witnessing the Amish: Plain People on Fancy FilmChapter 2. Reel Amish: The Amish in DocumentariesChapter 3. "Why We Fear the Amish": Whiter-than-White Figures in Contemporary American PoetryChapter 4. Pursuing Paradise: Nonfiction Narratives of Life with the AmishChapter 5. Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio TownsChapter 6. Hollywood Rumspringa: Amish in the CityPart II: The Old Order Amish as Media Producers and ConsumersChapter 7. Amish Informants: Mediating Humility and PublicityChapter 8. Inscribing Community: The Budget and Die Botschaft in Amish LifeChapter 9. Publish or Perish: Amish Publishing and Old Order IdentityChapter 10. "Wicked Truth": The Amish, the Media, and Telling the TruthConclusion: The Amish, the Media, and the Nickel Mines School ShootingAcknowledgements List of Contributors Index

Diane Zimmerman Umble is a professor of communication at Millersville University, author of Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life, and coeditor of Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, both published by Johns Hopkins. David Weaver-Zercher is an associate professor of American religious history at Messiah College and author of The Amish in the American Imagination, also published by Johns Hopkins.

This is a finely crafted edited volume that should be easily adapted in undergraduate as well as graduate-level courses. The authors write with a knowledge and sensitivity to the topic that is refreshing and that scholars and students should appreciate. Church History 2009 What I appreciate most is the extent to which this book is able to explain Amish life... while also showing how their technological hesitancy complicates the multifaceted process of media mediation. The Amish and the Media should be of great interest to scholars and generally educated readers drawn to North American religion and the media. -- Willaim D. Romanowski Mennonite Quarterly Review 2009

• Introduction: The Amish and the Culture of MediationPart I: The Old Order Amish as Media ImagesChapter 1. Witnessing the Amish: Plain People on Fancy FilmChapter 2. Reel Amish: The Amish in DocumentariesChapter 3. "Why We Fear the Amish": Whiter-than-White Figures in Contemporary American PoetryChapter 4. Pursuing Paradise: Nonfiction Narratives of Life with the AmishChapter 5. Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio TownsChapter 6. Hollywood Rumspringa: Amish in the CityPart II: The Old Order Amish as Media Producers and ConsumersChapter 7. Amish Informants: Mediating Humility and PublicityChapter 8. Inscribing Community: The Budget and Die Botschaft in Amish LifeChapter 9. Publish or Perish: Amish Publishing and Old Order IdentityChapter 10. "Wicked Truth": The Amish, the Media, and Telling the TruthConclusion: The Amish, the Media, and the Nickel Mines School ShootingAcknowledgements List of Contributors Index

Diane Zimmerman Umble is a professor of communication at Millersville University, author of Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life, and coeditor of Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, both published by Johns Hopkins. David Weaver-Zercher is an associate professor of American religious history at Messiah College and author of The Amish in the American Imagination, also published by Johns Hopkins.

This is a finely crafted edited volume that should be easily adapted in undergraduate as well as graduate-level courses. The authors write with a knowledge and sensitivity to the topic that is refreshing and that scholars and students should appreciate. Church History 2009 What I appreciate most is the extent to which this book is able to explain Amish life... while also showing how their technological hesitancy complicates the multifaceted process of media mediation. The Amish and the Media should be of great interest to scholars and generally educated readers drawn to North American religion and the media. -- Willaim D. Romanowski Mennonite Quarterly Review 2009

• Introduction: The Amish and the Culture of MediationPart I: The Old Order Amish as Media ImagesChapter 1. Witnessing the Amish: Plain People on Fancy FilmChapter 2. Reel Amish: The Amish in DocumentariesChapter 3. "Why We Fear the Amish": Whiter-than-White Figures in Contemporary American PoetryChapter 4. Pursuing Paradise: Nonfiction Narratives of Life with the AmishChapter 5. Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio TownsChapter 6. Hollywood Rumspringa: Amish in the CityPart II: The Old Order Amish as Media Producers and ConsumersChapter 7. Amish Informants: Mediating Humility and PublicityChapter 8. Inscribing Community: The Budget and Die Botschaft in Amish LifeChapter 9. Publish or Perish: Amish Publishing and Old Order IdentityChapter 10. "Wicked Truth": The Amish, the Media, and Telling the TruthConclusion: The Amish, the Media, and the Nickel Mines School ShootingAcknowledgements List of Contributors Index