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Paul Jones and William FieldPurdue University
Farm Safety Issues in Old Order Anabaptist Communities:
Unique Aspects and Innovative Intervention Strategies
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The Anabaptist/Agriculture Connection
• A primary means of economic survival
• A primary means of cultural survival
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The Information Gap
• Though the Old Order Anabaptists have a distinctly agrarian culture, centralized statistics regarding agricultural safety have been sparse in regard to this population.
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Potential Reasons for Sparse Information
• Desire to remain separate from the world• Resistance to higher education and
impractical information• Unwillingness to participate in many
government programs• Reporting procedures often do not
distinguish “religious preference”
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The Old Order Anabaptists as a Subculture
• Religious
• Historical
• Geographical
• Social
• Economic– Kreps, et.al.
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Impact of Religious Beliefs on Agricultural Behavior
• Largely ignored or dismissed as irrelevant by researchers
• The few studies done indicate a link
• Possible relationship between Old Order beliefs/behaviors and those of the larger farm population
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Basic Anabaptist Beliefs
• Knowing basic spiritual and cultural principles is important for understanding and working with the population
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Anabaptist Beginnings
Early 1500s: movement began in Switzerland
Early 1700s: came to America to escape persecution in Europe
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Basic Beliefs
• Literal obedience to the teachings of Christ and the Scriptures
• Adult “believers” baptism (Anabaptist means “re-baptizer”)
• The ban (shunning)
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Basic Beliefs (cont.)
• Social separation from the world
• Rejection of violence
• Refusal to swear oaths
• Church as covenant community
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Gelassenheit
• Submission/obedience
• Yielding to a higher authority
• Resignation to God’s will
• Humility
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Ordnung (Ott-ning)
• Unwritten rules of conduct
• Discipline
• Ordering of one’s life
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What Does it Mean to be
Old Order?
• Selective Use of Technology
• Distinctive Dress
• Gemeinde or Redemptive Society
• Strict Adherence to Basic Beliefs
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Churches that hold Similar Beliefs
• Old Order Amish
• Old Order Mennonites
• Hutterite
• Beachy Amish
• New Amish
• German Baptist
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Growth
• 1890 - 22 Old Order congregations and 2,038 baptized adults
• 1992 - 898 districts and 145,000 population
• Current estimates - up to 250,000
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Distribution of Amish Communities -1991
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Socio-religious Characteristics Relevant
to Understanding Farm Safety Issues
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Selective Use of Technology
• Modern conveniences used with reticence (cultural preservation)
• Not anti-technology; instead, “negotiated cultural compromises” (Kraybill)
• Heavy reliance on and contact with animals
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• 21.8% of Amish couples have 10 or more children with the average of 7 children per family
• Doubling of population every 20-22 years
Amish Family Size
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Other Unique PopulationCharacteristics of Amish
• Half the proportion of people over 65 in comparison to the rest of the rural population
• Twice the proportion of youth under 20 in comparison to the rest of the rural population
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Attitudes Toward Child Labor
• Economic: helps family/community
• Social: learning value of work
• Spiritual: stewardship of creation
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Beliefs About Death
• God’s sovereignty
• “Thy will be done”– gelassenheit
• The best is yet to come
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Summary of Farm-related Fatalities within Old-Order Anabaptist Communities
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Number of Fatalities from Reporting States
•No buggy fatalities
•Performance of farm work or
in farm environment
21
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Fatalities: Age
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Fatalities: Gender
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Fatalities: Source of Injury
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Fatalities: Animal Behavior
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Developing Effective Intervention Strategies
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Factors in Working with Old Order Anabaptists
• “Primary, face to face social ties” (Kraybill)
• Knowledge of Ordnung
• Two kingdom worldview– Separation from the kingdom of the world– Separation of church and state
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Establish Northern Indiana Family Safety Committee
• Representatives of Amish Community
• Cooperative Extension Educators
• Purdue ASH Program
• Local law enforcement
• Local EMS/fire-rescue
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• Agricultural safety
• Fire safety
• Foods and canning safety
• Electrical power safety
• Substance abuse information
Conducting Family Safety Days in Church Districts
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Implement Buggy Safety Initiative
•SMV Emblems•Reflective Tape•Safety Brochure for Tourists
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Conferences for Professionals working with Anabaptist Communities
• 1998: Shipshewana, Indiana
• 2001: Holmes County, Ohio
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Additional Interventions
• “Amos and Sadie’s Farm: A Pathway to Safety”
• Indiana State Police initiatives