https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/issue/feed 2023-05-30T21:18:31+00:00 Joe Donnermeyer donnermeyer.1@gmail.com Open Journal Systems <p><em>The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communiti</em>es (JPAC) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing both empirical and theoretical work related to plain Anabaptist communities, including, among others, the Amish, conservative Mennonites, Amish-Mennonites, Apostolic Christians, Brethren, Bruderhof, and Hutterites. JPAC articles may include emerging issues associated with plain Anabaptist communities, diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of plain Anabaptist groups, and significant research findings about plain Anabaptist populations.</p><p>JPAC aims to facilitate the advancement of scholarship and research on plain Anabaptist communities in North America and around the world, and to strengthen the networks of scholars from all disciplines who examine faith groups that emerged from the Anabaptist movement of the 16^th century and who today maintain distinctive sectarian lifestyles and religious practices. JPAC enjoys the support and collaboration of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and the Amish &amp; Mennonite Information Center, Berlin, Ohio.</p><p>JPAC is a new journal in the field of plain Anabaptist studies developed by an editorial board that includes a founding editor of the https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9154 2022-07-10T23:52:20+00:00 Joseph F. Donnermeyer noreply.donnermeyer@osu.edu

<p style="font-weight: 400;">This article provides a demographic profile of the Amish in the Greater Lancaster County settlement, the oldest extant community and the largest in the world today. A dataset, based on a sample of about one in five households (N = 1,494), was developed from the 2015 directory for the Greater Lancaster settlement. The data is summarized along 10 major topics, including widows and widowers, ordained men, occupations of men, age at first marriage, most popular months for weddings, most popular days for weddings, number of children, birth intervals, stillbirths and infant deaths, and age and sex distribution of the population. The results are compared with the findings from a study of the Lancaster County Amish by Elmer Lewis Smith, published in 1960, that includes selected population statistics from the first half of the twentieth century and information that goes back to the final decade of the nineteenth century. The findings show a great deal of demographic stability; that is, trends in such demographic features as family size show only small, incremental changes. Only infant mortality and the occupations of men have shifted significantly. The article concludes by discussing the need for additional demographic research utilizing directories from other communities, large and small, old and new, and of different Amish groups based on the relative conservatism vs. progressivism of their church disciplines.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Joseph F. Donnermeyer https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9502 2023-05-04T19:07:55+00:00 Karen M. Johnson-Weiner noreply.johnson-weiner@osu.edu

<p>Letter writing is one method researchers can use to build on their in-person fieldwork experience. Through letters, a researcher can approach the Amish in a way that equalizes the exchange, allowing the correspondent the time and space to consider their responses. Moreover, while a visit from a non-Amish researcher interrupts daily activity, reading and writing letters remains a daily activity in the Amish world, especially among Amish women. Researchers may find that correspondence opens new areas of inquiry as Amish writers make connections to topics and subjects the researcher had not considered. By revealing deeper aspects of daily life, correspondence can force researchers to rethink their stereotypes and assumptions. Finally, the author reflects on some of the challenges of correspondence as a research method.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Karen M. Johnson-Weiner https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9509 2023-05-11T13:37:33+00:00 Tony Walsh noreply.walsh@osu.edu Jeff Bach noreply.bach@osu.edu Sam Funkhouser noreply.funkhouser@osu.edu

<p>This article utilizes a narrative methodological research paradigm to explore perceived distinctions between the Old German Baptist Brethren (the main Old Order expression of the Schwarzenau Brethren) and other Plain groups. The authors explore three areas of specific distinction: (a) The group’s weave of Pietist as well as Anabaptist historical and theological influences, (b) a strong emphasis on the ritualized enactment of a discrete array of ordinances, (c) an emphasis on orthopraxis rather than doctrinal uniformity as a marker of church unity. All these, together with four other areas addressed in the second part of the article, combine to create a distinctive and unusual expression of Plain spirituality and life practice.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Tony Walsh, Jeff Bach, Sam Funkhouser https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9510 2023-05-11T13:41:50+00:00 Gerald J. Mast noreply.mast@osu.edu Benuel Riehl noreply.riehl@osu.edu Erik Wesner noreply.wesner@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Gerald J. Mast, Benuel Riehl, Erik Wesner https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9511 2023-05-11T13:43:22+00:00 Susan Trollinger noreply.trollinger@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Susan Trollinger https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9512 2023-05-11T13:46:17+00:00 Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh noreply.rohrbaugh@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9513 2023-05-11T13:50:03+00:00 Carl Desportes Bowman noreply.bowman@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Carl Desportes Bowman https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9366 2023-01-20T18:13:53+00:00 Rachel E. Stein rachel.stein@mail.wvu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Rachel E. Stein https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9501 2023-05-04T18:59:29+00:00 Kyle C. Kopko noreply.kopko@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Kyle C. Kopko https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9516 2023-05-11T13:57:20+00:00 Joseph F. Donnermeyer noreply.donnermeyer@osu.edu Donald B. Kraybill noreply.kraybill@osu.edu Mark L. Louden noreply.louden@osu.edu Cynthia L. Nolt noltcl@etown.edu Steven M. Nolt noreply.nolt@osu.edu Marcus A. Yoder noreply.yoder@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Donald B. Kraybill, Mark L. Louden, Cynthia L. Nolt, Steven M. Nolt, Marcus A. Yoder https://www.osu.tests.sfulib4.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/JPAC/article/view/9515 2023-05-11T13:55:12+00:00 Joseph F. Donnermeyer noreply.donnermeyer@osu.edu Steven M. Nolt noreply.nolt@osu.edu

<p>No abstract available.</p>

2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Steven M. Nolt