What the Amish teach us plain living in a busy world
"Lessons from America's Amish about community, family, faith, business, and technology offer wisdom for modern life"--
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Riddles: Negotiating with Modernity
- Villages: Webs of Well-Being
- Community: Taming the Big "I"
- Smallness: Bigness Ruins Everything
- Tolerance: A Light on a Hill
- Spirituality: A Back Road to Heaven
- Family: A Deep and Durable Bond
- Children: At Worship, Work, and Play
- Parenting: Raising Sturdy Children
- Education: The Way It Should Be
- Apprenticeship: An Old New Idea
- Technology: Taming the Beast
- Hacking: Creative Bypasses
- Entrepreneurs: Starting Stuff
- Patience: Slow Down and Listen
- Limits: Less Choice, More Joy
- Rituals: A Natural Detox
- Retirement: Aging in Place
- Forgiveness: Pathway to Healing
- Suffering: A Higher Plan
- Nonresistance: No Pushback
- Death: A Good Farewell
- Epilogue. Negotiation Never Ends.
