Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Within the triangular area occupied by the Old Order Amish there are many com munities which are not contiguous like most communities, but which overlap at many points. Some of these are the schismatic groups of Plain People, mainly Mennonites which developed from the same religious parent body and which abide in varying degrees by t.he principle of nonconformity (see', for example, Romans 12: 2) and a second cardinal religious principle. Of the Plain People-separation from the world (ii Cor, 6: addition, the non Plain People living in the area h-ave multiple community focal pointsn The result is that in the larger area occupied by the Old Order Amish a complexity of community patterns is found; some are based strictly on church affiliation and some have their centers in villages and towns. The Old Order Amish constitute what may be called a socio religious community which is strictly rural.
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