Young Center Books
in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies are published by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore, Maryland. Johns Hopkins University Press, the oldest university press in the nation, was founded in 1878 and is one of the world's largest and most respected university presses. JHUP publishes 58 scholarly periodicals and approximately 250 new books each year.
The first book in the new Young Center series, Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools by Karen Johnson-Weiner, professor of anthropology at SUNY Potsdam, is a comprehensive study of Old Order Mennonite and Amish schools in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Three more books were also published in 2007: Growing Up Amish: The Teenage Years by retired Messiah College professor Richard Stevick in April; Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities by Goshen College professors Steven Nolt and Thomas Meyers in May; Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War by James O. Lehman and Steven Nolt in September.
The fifth book in the series, The Amish and the Media, edited by Diane Zimmerman Umble, professor of communication at Millersville University, and David L. Weaver-Zercher, associate professor of American religious history at Messiah College, was published in Spring 2008.
Series editor Donald B. Kraybill guides the acquisition and development process for new manuscripts. For a description of the scope of the Young Center Books series, see the overview [pdf]. For a description of the acquisition process, see the acquisition document [pdf].
