Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish
by Tom Shachtman
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Author: Tom ShachtmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 0865477426
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: North Point Press
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Book Review: Very good reading
Summary: 4 Stars
I appreciated both the interviews and descriptions of Rumspringa and its role in Amish culture, but also the extensions to, and comparisons with, adolescent development and transitions to adulthood in our general American culture. Well written and enjoyable reading.
Summary of Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish
Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman?s celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa?the 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 lives?whether 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).
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).
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