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 11, Issue 1 (2023) The Plain Anabaptist People at Mid-Century (1930-1969)
Table of Contents and Title Page
Title Page and Table of Contents 11(1)
JAPAS Editors
Editor's Comments
The Plain Anabaptist People at Mid-Century (1930-1969) / In Memoriam
Cory Anderson and Steven Reschly
Original Research Articles
Subjectivity in the Lancaster Amish Community Study of 1940-42: 'Economic Conquest' in Loomis’s Diary and Rosinow’s Photographs
Elizabeth Bennett
The 1955 Diener Beschluss: Text, Interpretation, Reception History, and Historiography
Christopher Petrovich
Research Note
Resources
The Life of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Transcript of the Reschly-Jellison Interviews
Steven Reschly and Katherine Jellison
The Work of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Annontations of His 1940s Amish Publications
Cory Anderson
Symposium
Symposium Review: Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age—John P.R. Eicher
Kenneth Burkholder, Nathan N. Zook, and John P.R. Eicher
Book Reviews
Review of: Carpenter Under Construction: The Story of Don Plank—Diane Freed
James Swartz and Kathryn Swartz
Review of: Phebe’s Home: A Woman’s Life in the Warwick River Mennonite Colony—Jo Anne Kraus
Kathryn Swartz
Announcement
Announcements
JAPAS Editors
Editors
- Editor in Chief
- Cory Anderson
- Assistant Editor
- Steven Reschly
- Copy Editor
- Rosanna Hess
- Editorial Board
- Andrea Borella, Elizabeth Cooksey, Berit Jany, Katherine Jellison, Natalie Jolly, Martin Lutz, Braxton Mitchell, Christopher Petrovich, Dan Raber, Carel Roessingh, Michael Sauder, Byran Smucker, Vlatka Škender, Susan Trollinger, Nathan Zook