Jan 20, 2022 | Amish, Anthropology, Courtship Practices, COVID-19, Gender Roles, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Linguistics, Lives of Amish Women, New New Order Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Old Order Schools, Participant Observation, Sex Education, Swartzentruber Settlement, Wisconsin v. Yoder |
by Susan L. Trollinger Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is a Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology Emerita at SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam, NY, where she taught courses in linguistic anthropology. She received a B.A. in 1975 from Hope College (Holland, MI) and an M.A....
Oct 11, 2021 | Amish, Amish Country Theater, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Evangelicals, Evolution, Janet Kellogg Ray, Masking, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Vaccination, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Promotional photo for the Amish Country Theater (2021) Every other year my wife Sue teaches a course here at the University of Dayton (UD) entitled “The Arguments and Visual Rhetoric of Two Religious Traditions.” Not surprisingly, the two...
Aug 17, 2017 | American Athiests, Amish |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger This weekend, Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger will be speaking at the convention of the American Atheists in Charleston, South Carolina. Their topic is how the Creation Museum presents itself as a museum, how it...
Jun 5, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evolution, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Noah's Flood, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Last Wednesday, Sue presented our co-authored paper, “Sacred Rhetoric Turned into Culture War Rhetoric at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter,” at the Sacred Rhetorics conference, which was held at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay,...
Jul 17, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Creation Museum |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger In our July 9 blog post, we reported being surprised, really surprised, by how few visitors we saw on Ark Encounter’s opening day (July 7). Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who took notice. Plenty of images are now...
Jun 14, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Culture War, Fundamentalism, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Last Thursday, we presented our paper, “Dinosaurs in Eden: Fundamentalism and the Plain People,” at a conference on the Amish (called “Continuity and Change”) at Elizabethtown College. You can find a much-reduced version of...
