caa a22 4500 388089563 CHVBK 20180307125244.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170111 doi S0009640700071067 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170111 Weaver-Zercher David assistant professor of American religious history at Messiah College Putting the Amish to Work: Mennonites and the Amish Culture Market, 1950-1975 [Elektronische Daten] [David Weaver-Zercher] In May 1951, Mennonite churchman Grant Stoltzfus profiled the rising renown of Lancaster County's sectarian groups for readers of the Lancaster-based Pennsylvania Dutchman. In his "Memorandum to Persons Interested in Disseminating Information about Mennonites and Amish and Their Way of Life,” Stoltzfus described how, in recent years, the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce had been inundated with requests for information about the county's Mennonite and Amish residents. Even more significant—and, to Stoltzfus, more unsettling—was the commerce in information that transpired outside the chamber's walls. Stoltzfus characterized what he saw being sold in Lancaster's bus station as "cheap, tawdry literature on the Amish and Mennonites,” and he complained that similar materials were available throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. Stoltzfus concluded his memo with a rhetorical question and a call to action: "Can we blame these businesses for handling [this literature] until we take some positive steps to provide something better?” Scholarly works have their place, wrote Stoltzfus, but the hour's most pressing need was the production of "some good popular pamphlets on Mennonite and Amish life.” Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/1(1999-03), 87-117 0009-6407 68:1<87 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weaver-Zercher David assistant professor of American religious history at Messiah College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/1(1999-03), 87-117 0009-6407 68:1<87 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge