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Today’s Amish live in rural areas in a band of more than 20 states, stretching westward from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana to as far west as Montana, with some scattered settlements in Florida and the province of Ontario, Canada. As affordable land has decreased, some Amish have migrated to Argentina and Bolivia. The Old Order Amish, so-called for their strict observance of traditional ways that distinguish them from other, more progressive “plain folk,” are the largest and most notable group. The Amish emerged after 1693, when they parted ways with the Anabaptist movement that originated in Switzerland in 1525. After experiencing severe persecution and martyrdom in Europe, the Amish and related groups immigrated to North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Some variant groups are named after their factional leaders (for example Egli and Beachy Amish); some are called conservative Amish Mennonites; and others, New Order Amish. No Amish live in Europe today.
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Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). The Amish. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_6
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