From a conference of this title at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. Includes six views of the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication. Presenters and their topics included the following: Thomas W. Cooper, "The Amish, Old Orders, and media: a report on the conference;" Tamara L. Gillis, "When cultures clash: reporting on a sensational story within a community of faith;" Donald B. Kraybill, "Culture clash: the Amish and the media;" Ann Rodgers-Melnick, "Don't say 'cult': reporting on minority religions;" Diane Zimmerman Umble, "Collisions of culture: covering the death of an Amish child;" and Robert Rhodes, "Communal concerns about the media." Use title search or author search for full citation of each.
About a conference, The Amish, Old Orders and the Media, at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. One of six papers related to the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication.
Via Eighteenth Century Studies., Review of John Fea's The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. Reviewer notes Fea's primary claim that the Enlightenment was about self-improvement. "This gives an entirely different focus from those studies of rural American Enlightenment that address the question of modernity through agricultural improvement."
Presented during a conference, The Amish, Old Orders and the Media, at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. One of six papers related to the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication.
