Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

(Part of the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Series)

by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

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Train Up a Child explores how private schools in Old Order Amish communities reflect and perpetuate church-community values and identity. Here, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner asserts that the reinforcement of those values among children is imperative to the survival of these communities in the modern world.

Surveying settlements in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, Johnson-Weiner finds that, although Old Order communities...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801884950

ISBN13:9780801884955

Release Date:December 2006

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 9.5"

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Education Education & Reference Religion Religion & Spirituality

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Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

(Part of the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Series)

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