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Amish Culture Prizes Peace − But You Wouldn’t Necessarily Know It from a Stop in Amish Country Tourist Towns

Oct 18, 2023 | American Flag, Amish, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Declaration of Independence, Dirk Willems, Hold Fast, Imagined Future, New Order Amish, Nostalgia, Old Order Amish, Pacifism, Peace, Pledge of Allegiance, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Selling the Amish, Tourism, University of Dayton, Visual Rhetoric | 3 comments

by Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to republish it here at rightingamerica. Gift items for sale in Walnut Creek, Ohio, in May 2023. Photo by Susan Trollinger Ohio’s Amish Country, located in...

What Pandemic? The Amish and Amish Country Tourists Dispense with Masks

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 | 0 comments

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...