Rumspringa ( German pronunciation Pennsylvania: Ã, [r? m '? pr ???] ), also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa , is a transitional rite during adolescence, translated in English as "Jumping/skipping", is used in some Amish and Mennonite communities. Amish, a subcontinent of the Anabaptist Christian movement, deliberately broke away from other communities as part of their faith. For Amish youth, Rumspringa usually begins around the age of 14 to 16 years and ends when a young man chooses baptism in the Amish church, or even leaves the community. For Wenger Mennonites, Rumspringa occurs between the ages of 16 and 21. Majority choose baptism and remain in the church.
Not all Amish use this term (it does not occur in long discussions of John A. Hostetler about adolescence among the Amish people), but in the sects that do so, the Amish elders usually see it as a time for courtship and finding a partner. A popular view exists when the period is instituted as a ritual, and the usual restriction of behavior is relaxed, so that Amish youth can gain some experience and knowledge about the non-Amish world.
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Etymology
Rumspringa is a German noun Pennsylvania which means "running around". It comes from the verb rumspringen . This is closely related to the German Standard verb (he) rumspringen which means "skipping or about". The Standard German term is a compound word of the annotations of the herum (about, about) and the verb springen ("jump"). However, in Swiss German like some other southern German dialects, springen - besides means "jump" - it also means "run". In German The modern standard "for passing" will usually be translated with the verb hÃÆ'¼pfen , which literally means "to jump". This term/concept is also used as a separable verb, that is, rumspringen (jumping)/ er springt rum (he jumps up and down).
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Amish adolescents may engage in rebellious behavior, reject or oppose the norms of parents. In many cultures, enforcement may be relaxed, and behaviors that are tolerated or ignored for a degree. The notion of rumspringa has emerged in popular culture that the difference from this custom is the part received from adolescence or the transitional rite for Amish youth.
Among the Amish, however, rumspringa refers only to adolescence. During that time certain behaviors are not surprising and not very condemned (eg, with Meidung or excommunication). Adults who have made a permanent and public commitment to beliefs will adhere to higher standards of behavior defined partially by the recognition of Schleitheim and Dordrecht. In a narrow sense, young people are not bound by Ordnung because they have not taken adult membership in church. However, Amish teenagers remain under the strict authority of parents who are tied to Ordnung, and there is no time when teenagers are officially released from these rules.
This is the period when young people are deemed to have reached adulthood, and are allowed to attend Sunday night's "night" that is the focus of courtship among the Amish; according to Amish sources, a young man who dared to attend any of these events before the age of 16 might be forced to eat warm milk from a spoon, a good reminder to observe the status line. Members of the local church district often attend the show and usually bring along smaller children.
A small portion of Amish youth deviate from established customs. Some can be found:
- Wearing non-traditional clothes and hairstyles (referred to as "English makeup")
- Drive vehicles other than horse-drawn vehicles (for communities that avoid motor vehicles)
- Not attending home prayer
- Drink and use other recreational drugs
Not all youth are different from the habits during this period; about half in larger communities and the majority in smaller Amish communities remain within the norms of Amish dress or behavior during adolescence. Nearly 90 percent of Amish youth choose to be baptized and join the Amish church.
Leave community
Some of the Amish youth did indeed break away from the community, even live among the "English", or non-Amish North Americans, experiencing modern technology. Their behavior during this time does not necessarily prevent them from returning for adult baptism to the Amish church.
Most of them did not wander far from their family homes during this time, and a large number (85-90 percent) eventually chose to join the church. But this proportion varies from community to community, and within communities between fewer and less amorphous Amishes. For example, Amish Swartzentruber has lower retention rates than Andy Weaver Amish (90 versus 97 percent, although most Amish Swartzentrubers do not allow teens to leave the community during rumspringa at will). This figure was much lower in the 1950s. The desertion of the Amish community was not a long-term trend, and more of a problem during the early colonial period.
Variations
As among non-Amish, there are variations between individual communities and families as the best response to juvenile delinquency. Some Amish communities have views similar to Old Order Mennonite, and Mennonit Conservatives in search of more productive and spiritual activities for their youth. Some even meditate.
In some cases, patience and patience prevail, and on the other hand, strong discipline. Far from being separated openly from the way parents, bad behavior of young people during rumspringa is usually stealthy, though often collective (this is especially true in smaller and more isolated populations, larger communities are discussed below ). They may or may not mingle with non-Amish in this visit. This age is characterized normatively in some Amish communities by allowing the youth to buy small "small trains", or - in some communities - by painting a blue yard gate (traditionally meaning "married married daughters living here";.Ã, M. Aurand at The Amish (1938), along with a plausible warning that sometimes the blue gate is only a blue gate). There are some opinions that teenage rebellion tends to be more radical, more institutionalized (and therefore more acceptable) in a more restrictive community.
The nature of the period rumspringa differs from individual to individual and from community to community. In large Amish communities such as the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Holmes and Wayne County, Ohio, and Elkhart and LaGrange Counties, Indiana, Amish communities are numerous, so the Amish youth subculture exists. During rumspringa , Amish youth in this large community will join one of the various groups ranging from the most rebellious to the fewest. These groups need not be shared among the boundaries of traditional Amish district churches, although they are often located. In many smaller communities, Amish youth may have more rumspringa, and also less likely to take part in strong rebellious behavior, because they lack the anonymity of a larger community.
Youth Wenger Mennonites underwent a period of rumspringa between the ages of 16 and 21, a few years older than the Amish did. They usually do not get into the most "irregular" serious breach of the Amish youth.
In popular media
Movies
Rumspringa is the subject of the documentary Devil's Playground (2002), nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and for three Emmy Awards documentaries - Documentary, Editing, and Best Direction. Spin-off films include an interview transcript of the book, titled Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish, and the reality TV series UPN, Amish in the City.
Rumspringa disebutkan dalam movie film Sexdrive (2008), Gone Girl (2014) than How To Be Single (2016).
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Levi Miller's 1989 novel Ben's Wayne describes the rumspringa of an 18-year-old Amish youth in Holmes County, Ohio, during the fall of 1960. According to Richard A. Stevick, the novel is a realistic portrayal. from rumspringa back then.
Rumspringa is the subject of the novel Roger Rheinheimer Amish Snow , which tells of the rugged Ezra Neuenschwander's journey from the victims of Amish's rough house life to a successful businessman.
Television
Amish in the City was series at United Paramount Network in 2004, where 5 Amish and 6 non-Amish youth live together in the same house. Of the 5 Amish, only 1 returned to the church to be baptized.
An episode of the Fox Bones detective series ("The Plain in the Prodigy") relates to human remains found scattered along the railroad tracks. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and Seeley Booth are determined by their forensic studies of skeletal human body parts that they are the remains of Amish youth in Rumspringa. In addition, they learn who killed him and why.
Cold Case season 5, episode 3 [titled "Running Around"] is about Rumspringa a teenage Amish girl and murder.
Longmire season 1, episode 2 ("The Dark Road") is about the murder of a young Mennonite girl working secretly as a stripper during Rumspringa.
In Orange is New Black season 3, episode 9 ("Where My Dreidel At") tells of Leanne's background and reveals that she committed a crime during Rumspringa, and the police offered her a bargain to stay out of jail if he goes undercover with other Amish teenagers at Rumspringa and records their drug use and sales. He accepted the deal, but after returning from Rumspringa to his community he was shunned for betraying other Amish teenagers to the police and eventually jailed for subsequent crimes.
The Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers (2010) is a Channel 4 television documentary series focusing on five Amish youth who travel to England during their Rumspringa as part of an organized cultural exchange. In each episode, the group lives with British families of varying socioeconomic levels, living in a place in South London Council Estate, Kent countryside, and a Scottish hunting ground. During their visit, they were introduced to various and foreign, including sex shops, street dances, single mothers, stabbings, street violence, rock music, beach parties, game shootings and polos. The first episode of the four episode series aired on July 25, 2010.
In the episode of the Rules of Engagement, Twice, an Amish youth encounters Rumspringa in New York with Russell Dunbar as his mentor.
In the final episode of the third season of My Name is Earl, Earl has to hold a young Amish girl from the "Camdenite" community during Rumspringa ("Camdenites", Earl explains, is a small part of an Amish-like religious movement that founded a community near her hometown, Camden , after a small conflict with the rest of the movement). He did this as a way to balance how he and his brothers years ago used the innocence of the girls in their time outside of the community, with unforeseen consequences leaving the community without young women (because all the girls chose to abandon the Amish lifestyle after that experience).
The second season episode of 2 Broke Girls , "And Three Boys with Wood", has Max and Caroline take the two Amish boys in their Rumspringa and allow them to build a horse stall Caroline, Chestnut. During the episode, a boy, Jebediah, grew to love the non-Amish world while the others, Jacob, remained tense and eventually returned home after being overwhelmed.
One of the deaths in episode 32 of "1000 Ways to Die" (death # 645) is the history of an Amish boy who attended a party during Rumspringa and excessive alcohol consumption eventually kills him due to birth defects (his body does not produce alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes) which escaped unconsciously because of his religious habits.
In episode nine of The Guest Book, an Amish boy in Rumspringa is shown trying to find out what God wants him to do. He tried to commit suicide several times to meet God and he fell in love with the actress and character of the old show that appeared on television.
In New Girl season 6, episode 17 [titled "Rumspringa"] Nick and Schmidt visit Rumspringa to calm Schmidts nerves.
Literature
Scientific and documentary work
Rumspringa is mentioned in standard works on the Amish, such as Hostettler's Amish Society, the works of Donald Kraybill, An Amish Paradox by Hurst and McConell and others, but there are only one scientific book about this:
- Richard A. Stevick: Growing Amish: The Teenage Years , Baltimore, 2007.
There is also a documentary book:
- Tom Shachtman: Rumspringa: Being or Not Being Amish , New York, 2006.
Biography
Rumspringa is also mentioned in some ex-Amish biographies such as for example. Ira Wagler's More
There are several books in the genre of Amish romance literature that deal with rumpringa, but mostly without gaining knowledge of the subject. Levi Miller's novel Ben i Wayne is an exception, as it is a realistic picture of rumspringa in 1960.
- Levi Miller: Ben's Wayne , Intercourse, PA, 1989.
References
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