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Amish and the Media

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This collection is the first scholarly treatment of the relationship between the Amish and the media in contemporary American life. The essays collected here not only focus on the Amish as subjects in mainstream media—news, movies, reality TV—but also view them as producers and consumers of media themselves. Of all the religious groups in contemporary America, few demonstrate as many reservations toward the media as do the Old Order Amish. Yet these attention-wary citizens have become a media phenomenon, featured in films, novels, magazines, newspapers, and television—from Witness, Amish in the City, and Devil's Playground to the intense news coverage of the 2006 Nickel Mines school shooting. But the Old Order Amish are more than media subjects. Despite their separatist tendencies, they use their own media networks to sustain Amish culture. Chapters in the collection examine the influence of Amishproduced newspapers and books, along with the role of informal spokespeoplein Old Order communities.With essays from experts in the fields of film and media studies, poetry, American studies, anthropology, and history, this groundbreaking study shows how the relationship between the Amish and the media provides valuable insights into the perception of minority religion in North American culture. 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 L. 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.

""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.""

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