The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed journal that focuses on the seven major plain Anabaptist religious traditions: Amish, Apostolic Christian / Nazarene (Froelich), Brethren / German Baptist, Bruderhof, Hutterite, Swiss American / Swiss Canadian Mennonite, and Low German (Russian) Mennonite.
JAPAS welcomes a variety of approaches to knowledge-making, including the empirical, the theoretical, the humanities, and the applied.
JAPAS is co-published by the University of Akron IdeaExchange and the Amish & Plain Anabaptist Studies Association.
Current Issue: Volume 13, Issue 1 (2026)
Table of Contents and Title Page
Front Matter 13(1-2)
JAPAS Editors
Editor's Comments
Historian David “Titus” Luthy (1941–2025): A Principled Convert, the Personification of Academia among the Amish
Cory Anderson
Original Research Articles
Workplace Environmental Exposures and Related Health Conditions among Amish & Mennonite Women in Ohio
Lora Wyss, Ratchneewan Ross, and Rosanna Hess
Using Amish Scribes’ Newspaper Letters to Portray the New Wilmington, PA, Amish Settlement
Kristin Park
The Sociologists and the Anthropologists: Intellectual Imaginations of Mennonite Settlements in the Paraguayan Chaco
Samuel Boucher
Symposium
Review of: Old Order Mennonite Spirituality: Analysis of Ascetical and Mystical Parallels in Medieval Monasticism and a Contemporary Anabaptist Community—Andrew C. Martin
David Gilland, Laura Kelly, and Donald Martin
Review Essay
Review of: Documents of Brotherly Love, Dutch Mennonite Aid to Swiss Anabaptists, Volumes I, II, III—James M. Lowry
Sheldon Raber
Book Reviews
Review of: “Singen is a part vu unsern Lebm”: Musik bei den Hutterern von Fairholme/Manitoba—Judith Rubatscher
Vlatka Škender
Review of: A Fragile Heritage: Untangling the Strands of Faith and Mutation—Sheryl Leinbach
Beth Bennett and Karen Conley
