Amish
A living tradition within Anabaptism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Amish is a living tradition within Anabaptism. Also written Amish Mennonites, Old Order Amish.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Jakob Ammann. Founding date given as 1693. Britannica dates the schism to 1693-97, when the Swiss Mennonite elder Jakob Ammann (c. 1644-c. 1730) left the movement over church discipline, insisting on social shunning of the excommunicated, uniform dress, untrimmed beards, footwashing in worship, and non-attendance at state-church services.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Amish.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-amish.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.