![]() 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. The 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. Offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing that we recognize as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence. ![]() Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, Tom Shachtman 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. ![]() A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before ![]()
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