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Summary
- There is no single Amish rule on alcohol; each church district’s Ordnung decides, and drinking is strongly discouraged.
- In a 2011 Ohio survey the Amish drank significantly less than their neighbors, and 85 percent of Amish women had never drunk alcohol.
- The New Order Amish made tobacco, alcohol and bed courtship central issues when they separated from Old Order churches.
- Amish communion, held each spring and autumn, uses bread and wine.
- Most reported alcohol abuse is among some unbaptized youth during Rumspringa, and the Amish Youth Vision Project works to reduce it among Old Order youth.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations from the King James Version (Matthew 26:27, 29; Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 5:21).
- Gebra B. Cuyun Carter, Mira L. Katz, et al., “Dietary intake, food processing, and cooking methods among Amish and non-Amish adults living in Ohio Appalachia: relevance to nutritional risk factors for cancer,” Nutrition and Cancer 63, no. 8 (2011): 1208–1217. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3800012/
- G. C. Waldrep, “The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal within Tradition,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 82, no. 3 (July 2008): 395–426. Publisher abstract page: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA218190812&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00259373&p=LitRC&sw=w
- “New Order Amish,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_Amish
- Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, “Religious Rituals,” Amish Studies. https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/religion/religious-rituals/
- Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, “Rumspringa,” Amish Studies. https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/cultural-practices/rumspringa/
- Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, “Frequently Asked Questions,” Amish Studies. https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/frequently-asked-questions/
- Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, “Church Discipline,” Amish Studies. https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/religion/church-discipline/
- The Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632), article X, “Of the Holy Supper.” https://www.nobts.edu/baptist-center-theology/confessions/Dordrecht_Confession_of_Faith.pdf
- C. Weber, J. A. Cates and S. Carey, “A Drug and Alcohol Intervention with Old Order Amish Youth: Dancing on the Devil’s Playground,” Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery 5, no. 2 (2010): 97–112. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15560351003766075
