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The Amish generally follow basic Christian beliefs and practices but are not homogeneous, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

German migration brought Lutheran, German Reformed, and Pietist churches to the middle colonies, and the Scots-Irish took Presbyterianism wherever they went.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Other Lutheran theologians, particularly those in the Pietist camp, were considerably more tolerant.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

The Amish population here grew 50 percent, from just over 20,000 in 2000 to about 31,000 in 2012, according to figures compiled by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2014

At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall