Traditional courtship rituals include "Sunday evening singing" group gatherings, where boys and girls can meet. Children are taught in one-room schoolhouses, and education ends in the eighth grade. They marry among their own faith the women wear bonnets and modest, drab clothing, the men wear brimmed hats and grow their beards.
They are a religious, Christian-based farming community that shuns most modern conveniences such as phones and TVs, and they travel by horse and buggy. In our sex-soaked society, nothing seems to inflame the imagination quite like the chaste.In popular series such as Beverly Lewis' Seasons of Grace, Wanda Brunstetter's Indiana Cousins and Cindy Woodsmall's Sisters of the Quilt,the Amish fall in love while grappling with religious taboos and forbidden temptations.And it all happens in über-quaint settings brimming with hand-sewn quilts, horse-drawn buggies and made-from-scratch Pennsylvania Dutch specialties such as shoofly pie."It's a huge, huge, huge trend," says romance blogger Sarah Wendell, co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels.Who are the Amish? In a 21st-century world, the strictest among them live a 19th-century lifestyle. For many readers today, it's all about the bonnet.
0 kommentar(er)
