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Amish Culture

Introduction

The Amish culture has many values and believes that are completely different from the conventional Christianity. Many European Christians were killed and suffered approximately 400 years ago for their faith on adult baptism. Adult baptism is also known as Anabaptism, which means “re-baptizer."Anabaptist Has a belief that every member of the church must be baptized in their adulthood era instead of infancy (Robinson,p.n.d). Amish adult baptism allows every member of the church the liberation to find and select their faith through a tradition called Rumspringa. Rumspringa means “running around". Once a child crosses sixteen, they are given an open chance to explore the life in a Non-Amish style. It means now they have a liberty to utilize electrical appliances, they are free to enjoy television, can listen the music of their choice, and wear Non-Amish apparel as they like. In a nutshell, they are independent to smoke, drink and if they want they can use drugs too. The tenure of Rumspringa changes on the geographical basis. Some are granted a period of weeks and some with years. After exploring all the desires and wants then comes a decision phase in which a youngster has to decide either he/she wants to be a part of Amish society or want to quit. If any youngster wants to retain in the Amish society after the granted liberal period then he has to surrender to the will of church, and if the youngster wants to quit with the Amish society then he/she has to face the process of Shunned (Pinsker ,p.n.d).

History

The Amish was first recognized pronominal group in the period of the sixteenth century in Europe, under the leadership of the great leader Martin Luther. Among those Amish, there was a cluster which was known as Anabaptists. Anabaptist cluster was also called the Brethren. Anabaptists (rebaptized) have believed that every member of this cluster must be the member of Church (Good et.al, p.10). The Amish then subdivided into a new section which was known as Mennonites, named after the Great Menno Simons. The Primary Amish, lead by Jakob Amman split in 1693, from the secondary Amish group called Mennonites because of a divergence relating to transparency which is called Shunning (Good et.al, p.13). Shunning is a phenomenon in which every member is evaluated after the completion of Rumspringa. In shunning the member has asked to leave the community and never been contacted by any other member.

Eventually, Amish was forced, to flee to Deutschland from Switzerland. The Amish made the second flee in the eighteenth century this time Amish decided to settle down in United States to live a free and peaceful life. The Amish landed in the state of Pennsylvania where they got the fertile soil which they farmed in the best manner and make this occupation the part of their heritage. After the permanent settlement in Pennsylvania, the Amish explored the western states and Canada in the era of the 19th and 20th century.

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