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Rumspringa

By Tom Shachtman

Rumspringa Religion & Esotericism

Rumspringa

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Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa-the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, 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 in the world. In 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 "one of the most absorbing books ever written about the Plain People" (Publishers Weekly).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2007-05-29
Publication Date:
2007-05-29
Publisher:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0865477426
ISBN13:
9780865477421
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
434 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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