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The Amish Culture

Introduction

We tried to characterize, according to the concept of culture, the Amish community by different references that define the concept of culture. Thus, to be part of a community, its members must share common references to claim to have the same culture, such as knowledge and know-how practices, values, traditions, language, language, events, places and Finally, intellectual works. These are the criteria that allow the individual to create an identity and to recognize the other.

The origin of the Amish began the Reformation in the sixteenth century where they advocated freedom individual in the exercise of worship rather than the sacraments of the church. The Anabaptists first appeared in 1525 in Zurich, they decided to live in margins of the company's activities in what they called the Radical Reformation.

Traditional Culture of the Amish community

The Amish are an Anabaptist Christian community, that is to say that Baptism is conscious and voluntary, it is at an age when the person is able to understand the commitment it takes. They live mainly in North America where they lead a simple life away from modern society. The number Total Order Amish of the former is 227 000 in 2008 as the community does had only 123,000 members in 1992 the population has doubled in sixteen years. The Amish community is organized into independent congregations that communicate them, many similarities exist between congregations but also many differences, some deviations

Their expertise is undoubtedly crafts and agriculture. Agriculture has a very important to the Amish farms are handed down from father to son. The Women, meanwhile, are all sewing and creating patchworks known for their beauty (Wagler, pp. 131).

Rejecting any modernization, they grow and produce the most simple and natural as possible. Their creations are then sold on the markets or in specialty stores that Americans are rather fond of since it contains unusual or goods of better quality. Their knowledge is limited for us because modernization is not part of their principles. In fact, they have the knowledge to live, grow; they also have much religious knowledge (Liffring-Zug & Zug, pp. 45).

Values

The Amish live "in this world but not of this world." Indeed, with been persecuted for their differences of opinion and the way of life for at least three centuries, the Amish want to live separated from the world. One of their rules is "You do not conform to this world around you," the rule of life given birth to a true community value, they do not depend on the world around them. It is a self-sufficient community. They are also non-violent, likely to prevent the massacres they have experienced previously. The time for one value, is the philosophy that rejects all possession Amish material, they have nothing in material and great value, except their land. The Amish follow the precepts of Gelassenheit, which means the Resignation. This explains their spirit of humility, submission, contempt of the material world, acceptance of pain and non-revolt. Thus, they ...