Donald B. Kraybill, Ph.D.

Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow,
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Joint appt., Sociology and Religious Studies departments

The Young Center, Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022

Email: kraybilld@etown.edu      Fax: 717-361-1443
 


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Renegade Amish

Donald B. Kraybill

2014, 224 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

The Amish

Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt

2013, 500 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites

Donald B. Kraybill

2010, 328 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World

Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher

2010, 288 pp., Jossey-Bass

The Amish of Lancaster County

Donald B. Kraybill

2008, Stackpole Books

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher

2007, 288 pp., Jossey-Bass

The Riddle of Amish Culture

Donald B. Kraybill

2001 (revised edition), 424 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites:
Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World

Donald B. Kraybill and James P. Hurd

2006, 312 pp., Pennsylvania State University Press

Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits
Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt
2004 (second edition), 304 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

The Amish and the State
edited by Donald B. Kraybill
2003 (second edition), 350 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

The Amish: Why They Enchant Us
Donald B. Kraybill
2003, 48 pp., Herald Press

The Upside-Down Kingdom
Donald B. Kraybill
2011 (revised), 312 pp., Herald Press

Who Are the Anabaptists?
Donald B. Kraybill
2003, 48 pp., Herald Press

On the Backroad to Heaven:
Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren

Donald B. Kraybill and Carl D. Bowman

2001, 350 pp., Johns Hopkins University Press

Anabaptist World USA
Donald B. Kraybill and C. Nelson Hostetter
2001, 304 pp., Herald Press

The Riddles of Human Society
Conrad L. Kanagy and Donald B. Kraybill
1999, 400 pp., Pine Forge Press

The Puzzles of Amish Life
Donald B. Kraybill
1998 (revised edition), 126 pp., Good Books

The following titles are out of print but may be ordered online from used book sellers such as Amazon or ABE books: Where was God on September 11?; Building Communities of Compassion: Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice; Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism; The Amish Struggle with Modernity; Old Order Amish: Their Endearing Way of Life; Passing on the Faith: The Story of a Mennonite School; Facing Nuclear War: A Plea for Christian Witness; Perils of Professionalism: Essays on Christian Faith and Professionalism; Nuclear War and Lancaster County; Mennonite Education: Issues, Facts, and Changes; Ethnic Education: The Impact of Mennonite Schooling; Our Star-Spangled Faith. Additional information about the out-of-print books is available in Professor Kraybill’s cv.