Amish

This source names Amish directly: "Cates's "Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World," quoting its finding that there is no openly gay Amish subgroup and that the Amish effort to maintain a heteronormative standard..."

This source names Amish directly: "Amish Population Profile, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies' own 2025 demographic compilation, tracks the size and settlement pattern of the Amish population in North America."

This source names Amish directly: "The Amish Population Profile, 2024, published by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, is the annual scholarly count of Amish settlements, church districts..."

This source names Amish directly: "Hostetler was a sociologist who was himself raised in an Amish family before leaving the community, and this Johns Hopkins University Press book, now in its fourth edition, is his standard scholarly..."

This source names Amish directly: "hymnal still in regular use among the Amish, first printed in the sixteenth century."

This source names Amish directly: "same period, and Iowa's Mennonite and Amish communities, smaller than those of Pennsylvania or Ohio, maintain a similar plain dress and communal worship tradition in the state's rural east."

This source names Amish directly: "1693 dispute over shunning founded the Amish, consulted 2026-08-13."

This source names Amish directly: "The book remains, by long tradition within Mennonite and Amish communities, second only to the Bible in its devotional and formative importance."

This source names Amish directly: "individual display, distinct from the Amish quiltmaking this atlas records as its own separate entity."

This source names Amish directly: "by Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish church bodies, and shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice."

This source names Amish directly: "Pietist Studies' own reference page on Amish mutual aid, describing how Amish communities forgo commercial insurance and instead cover large medical bills and losses through church-collected..."

This source names Amish directly: "Lancaster County's Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, descended from those German and Swiss Anabaptist settlers, remain the largest and most visible plain sect population in the country..."

This source names Amish directly: "own tabulation of North American Amish population by year, 1992 through 2013, built up from settlement and church-district counts: 128,000 in 1992, more than doubling to 282,000 by 2013."

This source names Amish directly: "Wikipedia's article on rumspringa, the Amish period of adolescent freedom before baptism, consulted 2026-08-12."

This source names Amish directly: "identity, philosophy and behavior in Amish culture, drawing on over twenty-five years of the author's clinical work in and near Amish settlements; its treatment of homosexuality states there is no..."

This source names Amish directly: "and still used by some Mennonite and Amish groups as a statement of faith today."

This source names Amish directly: "and the Mennonite, Hutterite and Amish traditions descend from them, as does the modern principle of a church that the state neither funds nor governs."

This source names Amish directly: "Kraybill is a scholar of Anabaptist and Amish studies, and this Johns Hopkins University Press book is his standard scholarly study of Amish culture, examining how Amish communities negotiate..."

This source names Amish directly: "body, the Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish among them, currently holds or has revised these specific articles."

This source names Amish directly: "plain explanation of rumspringa and of Amish baptism and shunning."

This source names Amish directly: "The state's Old Order Amish communities, concentrated around towns like Cashton, were the plaintiffs in Wisconsin v."

An Anabaptist body, separated from the Swiss Brethren under Jakob Ammann.

Baptism follows the decision to join the church, which is made in adulthood at the end of Rumspringa, and cannot be made for a child.

Amish worship sings from the Ausbund alone, in unison, unaccompanied and very slowly, so an English gospel hymn does not enter the service.

Refused with the rest of the world's music. Singing in worship is in German, in unison, and without any instrument.

The Ausbund is the Amish hymnal, carried to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century and still sung from in the German of 1583.

Mutual aid replaces insurance: the community rebuilds a burned barn and pays a member's medical costs, and this is the practical form charity takes here.

Kept as a full day free of work, one of the fixed holidays of the Amish year alongside Christmas and Good Friday.

Baptism is received on joining the church as an adult, and it is the moment at which the discipline of the community becomes binding.

Kept quietly and without a decorated tree, and followed in many settlements by Second Christmas on December 26, a day for visiting.

The film's entire subject is Amish teenagers navigating rumspringa and the community's own baptism and shunning practices, not a passing reference to the tradition.

Foot washing is kept as an ordinance at the communion service, members washing one another's feet in pairs.

The funeral is held in the home or the barn, the coffin is plain and made by the community, and the grave marker is uniform with every other.

The Ordnung, renewed twice yearly by each church district before communion, is the Amish-specific expression of Anabaptist nonconformity, distinct from the Mennonite bodies that dropped most Ordnung-style discipline.