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    The Amish Subculture

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    Crime and Justice through eyes of the Amish 200 miles away from New York lays another world – one that is frozen in time. Home for a people whose lives have barely changed since their forefathers settled there over 300 years ago. Since then the Amish community has spread across 28 states and has more than one hundred an eighty thousand members. Worlds apart from mainstream culture‚ the Amish is oppose to many aspects of modern world‚ e.g. use of modern technology such as computers or cars. Even

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    Amish Culture

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    The Amish‚ without their electricity‚ cars‚ and television appear to be a static culture‚ never changing. This is just an illusion. The Amish are a self-motivated culture which is‚ through market forces and other means‚ continually interacting with the enormously tempting culture of America. The Amish have not only survived as a gemeinschaft type of society‚ but has grown and flourished while surrounded by a culture that would seem to be so detrimental to its basic ideals. The Amish‚ through population

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    Amish Technology

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    Amish Technology In order to understand the Amish view of modern technology‚ one must first understand their religious beliefs and values. The most important factor to the Amish life is submission to the will of God. According to their interpretation of scriptures Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 6:14 in the Bible‚ which basically states‚ “Do not copy the behavior and customs of this world. . .” and “Do not team up with those who are unbelievers. . .”; remaining quite separate from the rest of the

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    The Amish Religion

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    The Amish are a religious community with unique beliefs. The Amish religion is a sect of Christianity. More specifically‚ they are an Anabaptist group‚ which is a division in Protestantism. There are about 308 000 people who are Amish; the majority of which live in North America. Origins The origin of the Amish faith begins during the time of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. The Amish religion is said to have come from the Anabaptists. The Anabaptists were known to re-baptize adults who had

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    Amish Culture

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    The Amish aren’t a modern day 18th century time capsule‚ but a society that experiences change through time. This religion based on culture is the tool of the isolation from mainstream society. They keep a simple‚ non-technological life creating a mainstream society believing in peace‚ cooperation and pride. Their lives mean comprises have to be made to follow their ordnung‚ sacrifices such as Electricity and telephones‚ Amish travel in horse drawn buggies and refuse to own a car‚ education is finished

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    Amish Ritual Analysis

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    Discovering Grief and Use of Ritual within the Amish Population The guiding principle of the Amish lifestyle is Gelassenheit‚ which is the submission to the will of God and to the collective will of the Amish community. This principle impacts the Amish community’s view of death as being part of God’s will and plan‚ and the process as an ultimate submission to the will of God. The Amish do not fear death‚ but rather view it as a natural part of life. The Amish view death as the point of entry to an eternal

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    Amish Culture Essay

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    It is fact that the Amish culture is dominated by males‚ men are seen as more important than women; males traditionally being the leaders of the community. Men in the Amish culture are heads of the church‚ head of their family‚ are held responsible for the decisions and welfare of their family and are passed down family farms from generation to generation. In the Amish culture‚ females are expected to traditionally accept their role to marry and be a farmwife‚ when Amish women marry they are agreeing

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    The Amish Research Paper

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    The religious and cultural beliefs of the Amish‚ have led to variations in health care practices that are different from main stream American culture. The Amish believe in simple lifestyles and being "separate from the world‚" this is hallmark for the Amish. They don’t use modern conveniences that we do‚ such as electricity‚ computers‚ cars‚ and phones. They travel by horse and buggy‚ and grow their own gardens and raise their own cattle for food/milk. Their days are filled with

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    Kinships in the Yanomamo Ashley Jones ANT 101 Adrienne Stafford May 21‚ 2012 A kinship system is a system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture. Among many cultures kinship is greatly valued among the Yanomamo society. Their way of life centers around these kinships. Their kinships impact the way they think and how they live their lives. While in today’s society our families also known as our kin “kinships” are typically blood related or through marriage

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    Australia Kinship System

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    The Australian Aboriginal kinship system has a large impact on how the culture behaves beginning with their creation stories and then onto how children are raised‚ children entering adulthood‚ and relationships that are taught. These examples of kinships can differ from culture to culture especially in the Australian Aboriginal culture which could bring a culture closer together or it can damage the culture. Kinships can change how a culture behaves through their beliefs. Aboriginal culture is

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