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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: JHU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-21 - Publisher: JHU Press
"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
Language: en
Pages: 153
Pages: 153
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05 - Publisher: JHU Press
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork and collaborative research, The Amish: A Concise Introduction is a compact but richly detailed portrait of Amish
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-19 - Publisher: JHU Press
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