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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. It has been suggested that this article be merged with Amish in Canada. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2024. Group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships This article is about a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships. For other uses, see Amish (disambiguation ...
Amish religious practices are reflective of traditional Anabaptist Christian theology. The Old Order Amish typically have worship services every second Sunday in private homes. The typical district has 80 adults and 90 children under age 19. [2]
Amish young women at the beach, Chincoteague, Virginia. The Old Order Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world. They have low infant mortality rates. The average Amish woman can expect to have at least seven live births. [23] Other plain sects with the same or similar doctrines can be expected to have similarly explosive growth.
Amish communities share general beliefs, but their practices may differ depending on region, levels of religious and cultural conservatism and the specific heritage of different communities.
The Amish claim that educating their children beyond eighth grade is a violation of their religious beliefs, and so, have been granted exemptions of this mandate. In the past, in comparisons of standardized test scores of Amish students, the Amish have performed above the national average for rural public school pupils in spelling, word usage ...
The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
Jewish Christians continued to worship in synagogues together with contemporary Jews for centuries. [126] [127] [128] Some scholars have found evidence of continuous interactions between Jewish-Christian and Rabbinic movements from the mid-to late second century CE to the fourth century CE.
Amish convert and independent scholar Christopher Petrovich has challenged Kraybill, Johnson-Weiner, and Nolt's definitions of an affiliation on the grounds that their delineations of affiliations rests on somewhat arbitrary grounds, that they conflate the concept of a settlement and religious affiliation, that their imposition of a 20-year ...