RESOURCES FOR FURTHER READING
On the Amish
Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. 2007. Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. An introduction to Old Order elementary schools in North America.
Kraybill, Donald B. 2001. The Riddle of Amish Culture. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. An exploration of why the numbers of Old Order Amish are growing so rapidly in modern society.
Kraybill, Donald B., ed. 2003. The Amish and the State. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. A series of essays that examines conflicts between the Amish and the state in the twentieth century.
Nolt, Steven M. 2003. A History of the Amish. 2nd ed. Intercourse, PA: Good Books. A history of the Amish since their origins in 1693.
Nolt, Steven M., and Thomas J. Meyers. 2007. Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. An exploration of the origins and meaning of diverse Amish practices in various subgroups.
Stevick, Richard A. 2007. Growing Up Amish: The Teenage Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. A definitive study of Amish Rumspringa and other rites of passage of Amish teenagers.
Umble, Diane Zimmerman, and David Weaver-Zercher, eds. 2008. The Amish and the Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Essays by a variety of scholars on mainstream media treatments of the Amish and Amish uses of media.
Weaver-Zercher, David. 2001. The Amish in the American Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. An exploration of outsiders’ interest in and perceptions of the Amish throughout the twentieth century.
On Forgiveness
Doblmeier, Martin. The Power of Forgiveness. Documentary film that explores research into the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness in a variety of personal and social contexts.
Enright, Robert D. 2001. Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. An introduction to definitions of forgiveness and steps for extending forgiveness to one’s offenders.
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla. 2003. A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. A South African woman’s reflections on the atrocities of apartheid, including her thoughts on the problems and possibilities of apology and forgiveness.
Iligabiza, Immaculée. 2007. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House. The memoirs of a Tutsi woman whose family was killed in the 1994 Rwandan massacre; the book recounts her struggle to forgive those responsible for her family members’ deaths.
Luskin, Frederic. 2002. Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. An overview of how grievances are formed and how forgiveness can happen in appropriate and healing ways.
Minow, Martha. 1998. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence. Boston: Beacon Press. An examination of varied responses to mass violence around the world and the potential for healing.
Shults, F. LeRon, and Steven J. Sandage. 2003. The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. An introduction to the connections between Christian theology and psychological approaches to forgiveness.
Tutu, Desmond. 1999. No Future Without Forgiveness. New York: Doubleday. A memoir by the chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which responded to the offenses of apartheid.
Volf, Miroslav. 2005. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. An exploration of forgiveness from a Christian theologian who connects human forgiveness to God’s graciousness.
Wiesenthal, Simon. 1997. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. Rev. ed. New York: Schocken Books. A true story of a Nazi’s plea for forgiveness to a Jewish prisoner, with subsequent reflections on the prisoner’s silent response.
Worthington, Everett L., Jr. 2006. Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Theory and Application. New York: Routledge. A clinical-research-based book that combines definitions of forgiveness with clinical theory on how forgiveness can be promoted in practice.
Wright, N. T. 2006. Evil and the Justice of God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. An examination of the problem of evil—and the need to forgive in a world where evil exists—by the Anglican archbishop of Durham.