old religious sect
Disavow
Persecution
meidung or shunning
Mennonite
anti-Baptist – Anabaptists
Excommunication
William Penn's - religious freedom colony
Retention
(seven children on average)
The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 150,000 and is growing
Ordnung or "order" in German. List of rules that varies frrom community to community
there are as many as eight different orders within the Amish population, with the majority affiliated with one of five religious orders: Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Andy Weaver Amish, Beachy Amish, and Swartzentruber Amish. These churches operate independently from each other with differences in how they practice their religion and conduct their daily lives
Clothing is made at home of plain fabrics and is primarily dark in color.
Theres a lot of rules when it comes to clothing about what you can wear and what you cannot
The use of electricity is very limited in order to no cause vanity or inequality and they use a shared phone and use of windmills to generate energy for electric fences and such
The use of electricity is very different between the orders some are allowed to fly planes but cant own them while some other cant even use battery lights
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