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Center Books in Anabaptist Studies: Holding the Line : The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life by Diane Zimmerman Umble (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Holding the Line : The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life, Paperback by Umble, Diane Zimmerman, ISBN 0801863759, ISBN-13 9780801863752, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Umble's analysis of the social meaning of the telephone explores the effect of technology on community identity and the maintenance of cultural values through the regulation of the means of communication.

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Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence, and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting telephone ownership among the clergy. By 1909, the Amish had banned the telephone completely from their homes. Since then, the vigorous and sometimes painful debates about the meaning of the telephone reveal intense concerns about the maintenance of boundaries between the community and the outside world and the processes Old Order communities use to confront and mediate change. In Holding the Line , Diane Zimmerman Umble offers a historical and ethnographic study of how the Old Order Mennonites and Amish responded to and accommodated the telephone from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. For Old Order communities, Umble writes, appropriate use of the telephone marks the edges of appropriate association--who can be connected to whom, in what context, and under what circumstances. Umble's analysis of the social meaning of the telephone explores the effect of technology on community identity and the maintenance of cultural values through the regulation of the means of communication.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801863759
ISBN-13
9780801863752
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Author
Diane Zimmerman Umble
Publication Name
Holding the Line : the Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Series
Center Books in Anabaptist Studies
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz

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Umble offers a historic perspective on how members of the close-knit communities and their leaders responded to the challenges posed by the intrusion of the telephone into long-standing traditions of work, silence, and visiting in the early 1900s... A book that is useful in fostering understanding of the origins, philosophy, and lifestyle of the Plain People and enjoyable for its often humorous account of what life was like in America before the telephone reached out and touched everyone., ""Umble offers a historic perspective on how members of the close-knit communities and their leaders responded to the challenges posed by the intrusion of the telephone into long-standing traditions of work, silence, and visiting in the early 1900s... A book that is useful in fostering understanding of the origins, philosophy, and lifestyle of the Plain People and enjoyable for its often humorous account of what life was like in America before the telephone reached out and touched everyone."", ""Umble offers a historic perspective on how members of the close-knit communities and their leaders responded to the challenges posed by the intrusion of the telephone into long-standing traditions of work, silence, and visiting in the early 1900s... A book that is useful in fostering understanding of the origins, philosophy, and lifestyle of the Plain People and enjoyable for its often humorous account of what life was like in America before the telephone reached out and touched everyone." -- Harrisburg Patriot
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Christianity / Amish, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Social Aspects, General, History, Christianity / Mennonite, Customs & Traditions
Lccn
95-047049
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Religion, History, Social Science

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