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In the Valley of the Shadow
Randy-Michael Testa
其他書名
An Elegy to Lancaster County
出版
UPNE
, 1996
主題
Business & Economics / Real Estate / General
History / General
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Photography / General
Political Science / American Government / State
Religion / General
Religion / Christianity / Amish
Religion / Christianity / Mennonite
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0874517699
9780874517699
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u91fA8PDRF0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This compassionate examination of the dilemmas facing the Amish and Mennonite communities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania focuses on the controversy surrounding construction of a 600-unit retirement complex on prime farmland. Through interviews, personal accounts, and newspaper reports of the controversy, Randy-Michael Testa traces the cultural and economic erosion that is threatening a unique minority, and Ed Worteck's evocative photos capture a physical destruction indicative of greater moral decay. The interplay of politics, deception, bigotry, and beleaguered faith succumbing to the age of technology vividly portrays "a place struggling to keep its spiritual dignity, a place where modernity thunders over tradition, as time races ahead".