Publications

Stein, Rachel E., Katie E. Corcoran, Carina Perrone, and Jeralynn Cossman. Forthcoming. “The Influence of Reproductive History on Post-Reproductive Mortality: A Case Study of Amish Women.” Journal of Plain and Anabaptist Communities.

Corcoran, Katie E., Rachel E. Stein, Corey J. Colyer, Annette M. Mackay, and Sara K. Guthrie. 2021. “Global Contexts: How Country Contexts Shape the COVID-19 Experience of Amish/Mennonite Missionaries Abroad.” Religions, Special Issue: Religion and Public Health Threats in the 21st Century.

DiGregorio, Bernard, Katie E. Corcoran, Corey J. Colyer, and Rachel E. Stein. 2021. “‘When the Waves Roll High’: Religious Coping among the Amish During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Religions, Special Issue: Pandemic, Religion and Non-religion.

Stein, Rachel E., Katie E. Corcoran, Corey J. Colyer, Annette M. Mackay, and Sara K. Guthrie. 2021. “Closed but Not protected: Excess Deaths among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 pandemic.” Journal of Religion and Health.

Scott, Ethan M., Rachel E. Stein, Miraides F. Brown, Jennifer Hershberger, Elizabeth Scott, and Olivia K. Wenger. 2021. “Vaccination Patterns of the Northeast Ohio Amish Revisited.” Vaccine 39(7): 1058-1063.

“The Effects of Group Closure and Organizational Network Ties on Misinformation and Social Distancing Practice in Closed Religious Congregations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Principal Investigator: Rachel Stein; co-Principal Investigators: Katie Corcoran & Corey Colyer. Awarded February 2021 by the National Science Foundation.

Corcoran, Katie E., Rachel E. Stein, Corey J. Colyer, and Brittany Kowalski. 2020. “Familial Ties, Location of Occupation, and Congregational Exit in Geographically-Based Congregations: A Case Study of the Amish.” Review of Religious Research.

Life in the Time of COVID-19 grant titled, “Experiencing the Pandemic in a Closed Religious Group: The Amish and COVID-19. PI: Rachel E. Stein, Co-PIs: Katie Corcoran and Corey Colyer. Awarded May 2020 by the West Virginia University Humanities Center.

Stein, Rachel E., Katie E. Corcoran, Corey J. Colyer. 2019. “Fostering Interaction in a Strict Non-communal Group: A Case Study of Amish Visiting Practices.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 15(2): 2-23. 

Colyer, Corey J. and Rachel E. Stein. “Classical Roots of Contemporary Theory: Ferdinand Tonnies, Gemeinschaft, and Contemporary Conceptualizations of the Amish.” (Non-presenter). Annual meeting of the Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies Association, Millersburg, OH, June 2019.

Stein, Rachel E. and Lynne Cossman. “The Implications of Family Planning on Maternal Health.” Amish Conference, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, June 2019.

Corcoran, Katie, Rachel E. Stein, Brittany Kowalski, and Corey J. Colyer. “Holding their Horses: Network Ties and Exit in a Case Study of the Amish.” Annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Cincinnati, OH, March 2019. 

2018

Kowalski, Brittany, Rachel E. Stein and Corey J. Colyer. “Amish Gemeinschaft: A Longitudinal Case Study of a Community.” Annual meeting of the Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies Association, Millersburg, OH, June 2018. 

Kowalski, Brittany, Rachel E. Stein, and Corey J. Colyer. “Kinship Networks and Their Effects on Community Membership.” Annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2018. 

Stein, Rachel E., Erin Hudnall and Corey Colyer. “Learning versus getting the grade: Assessing student reactions in a team-based learning setting.” Annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2018.