Množina: Amishes

Or Amish Mennonite; Member of a Christian group based on the Mennonite Church, found today in the US and Canada. The Amish are distinctive for their adherence to pre-20th-century dress and a simple lifestyle, making no use of modern inventions.
Traditionally, the Amish live in German-speaking, semiclosed rural communities based on an agrarian economy. They are pacifists whose main concern is freedom to worship God, known to them through piety and personal religious experience. They hold to adult baptism and a literal reading of the Bible. Anyone marrying out of the community is cast out for ever.
When the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century was suppressed, Anabaptist communities fled into remote areas. The Amish Church was formed 1693–97 after a split away from the Swiss and Alsatian Mennonites, who were in turn a splinter group of the Anabaptists. The Amish were named for their leader, Swiss bishop Jakob Amman (c. 1644–c. 1730), who set very strict standards and rejected the Mennonite Church as too secular. The Amish were persecuted until the early 19th century, and many migrated to North America.An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman.