ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald B. Kraybill’s many books on Anabaptist groups include The Upside-Down Kingdom (1990), which received the national Religious Book Award, and The Amish Struggle with Modernity (1994). He edited the award-winning The Amish and the State (1993) and coauthored Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life (1993); Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism (1994); and Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (1995). His most recent books are On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (2001) and Anabaptist World USA (2001). Kraybill is a professor of sociology and Anabaptist studies at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.