{"product_id":"rumspringa-to-be-or-not-to-be-amish","title":"Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTom Shachtman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780865476875\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNorth Point Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before\"\" \"Rumspringa \"is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the \"rumspringa\"--the period of \"running around\" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, Tom Shachtman\u003cbr\u003eoffers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing that we recognize as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence.\u003cbr\u003eThe trappings of the Amish way of life--the \"plain\" clothes and electricity-free farms--conceal the communities' mystery: how they manage to retain their young people and perpetuate themselves generation after generation. The key to this is the \"rumspringa,\" when Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, trendy clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing them such freedom, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives--whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain out in the world.\u003cbr\u003eIn this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us an original and deeply affecting portrait of the Amish as a whole.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish | Tom Shachtman | Hardcover | 9780865476875 | Used: Like New | Sociology 1680109","offer_id":48750809841816,"sku":"1680109","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81crzUVBwML.jpg?v=1773947955","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/rumspringa-to-be-or-not-to-be-amish","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}