Further Reading

Robert Friedman, Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries (Scottdale, Penn., 1949), is an account of Amish religious practice in Europe. Most work on the Amish in North America approaches them from the perspective of an immigrant group in the United States. The classic work in the field is John A. Hostetler, Amish Society (Baltimore, 1980), while David Luthy’s The Amish in America: Settlements That Failed 1840–1960 (Aylmer, Ont., 1986) contains accounts of a number of Canadian-Amish settlements in both the United States and Canada.

A general history of the Amish in Canada is Orland Gingerich, The Amish of Canada (Waterloo, Ont., 1972), while two more recent studies, both by Lorraine Roth, are general studies of the Amish in Ontario: 150 Years, A Brief History of Amish Mennonites in Ontario (Kitchener, Ont., 1972), produced in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Amish settlement in Ontario, and “The Amish Mennonite Division in Ontario,” Ontario Mennonite History, vol.14, no.2 (1993), 18–21. An annotated bibliography by Donovan E. Smucker,The Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish (Waterloo, 1977), has recently been expanded by the same author in a volume covering the period 1977–90. see also Smucker’s The Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish: A Bibliography with Annotations (Waterloo, 1991).