Pennsylvania German History and Culture – serie
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Plain Women
Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren
Inbunden, 2001
634 kr
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Despite the great interest in "plain" groups in recent years, comparatively little has been written about women and the particular role they play in preserving traditional religious and cultural values in the modern world. In Plain Women, Margaret C. Reynolds portrays the women of the Old Order …
To the Latest Posterity
Pennsylvania-German Family Registers in the Fraktur Tradition
Av Corinne Earnest, Russell Earnest
Inbunden, 2004
864 kr
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The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the …
Pennsylvania German Broadside
A History and Guide
Av Don Yoder
Inbunden, 2005
844 kr
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Co-published with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania German Society Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to …
Writing the Amish
The Worlds of John A. Hostetler
Inbunden, 2005
576 kr
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From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world’s premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this often misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, …
Voices of the Turtledoves
The Sacred World of Ephrata
Av Jeff Bach
Häftad, 2006
601 kr
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Winner, 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist StudiesWinner, 2005 Outstanding Publication, Communal Studies AssociationCo-published with the Pennsylvania German Society/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht The Ephrata Cloister was a community of radical Pietists …
Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites
Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
Av Donald B. Kraybill, James P. Hurd
Inbunden, 2006
691 kr
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On a May Sunday in 1927, progress and tradition collided at the Groffdale Old Order Mennonite Church in eastern Pennsylvania when half the congregation shunned the cup of wine offered by Bishop Moses Horning. The boycott of this holiest of Mennonite customs was in direct response to Horning’s …
Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites
Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
Av Donald B. Kraybill, James P. Hurd
Häftad, 2006
349 kr
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On a May Sunday in 1927, progress and tradition collided at the Groffdale Old Order Mennonite Church in eastern Pennsylvania when half the congregation shunned the cup of wine offered by Bishop Moses Horning. The boycott of this holiest of Mennonite customs was in direct response to Horning’s …
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic
Häftad, 2008
526 kr
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Historians of the early Republic are just beginning to tell the stories of the period’s ethnic minorities. In Foreigners in Their Own Land, Steven M. Nolt is the first to add the story of the Pennsylvania Germans to that larger mosaic, showing how they came to think of themselves as quintessential …
Heart Language
Elsie Singmaster and Her Pennsylvania German Writings
Inbunden, 2009
664 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular literary magazines and journals pulsed with local-color fiction, seeking to satisfy a national hunger for American identity. Anxiety over increasing numbers of “new stock” immigrants—and the changing face of an industrializing America—gave rise …
Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World
Häftad, 2016
337 kr
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Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as Brauche or Braucherei, the folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all manner of physical and spiritual ills. Yet some people believed—and still believe today—that this power to heal came not from God, but from the devil. …
Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans
Constructing Identity in Early America
Inbunden, 2008
664 kr
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How did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries? Numerous forces create a group’s identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and …
