World without pressure, uncertainty and without the pandemic - the old order Amish

Abstract

The actual paper raises the problems that are placed at the crossways of the social sciences and theology. In this paper, the author’s own ethnographic research on the hermetic, orthodox and inaccessible Old Order Amish community living in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States is concisely reconstructed. The background for considerations is the pandemic of the Covid19 contagious disease caused by the SARS CoV2 coronavirus announced by the World Health Organisation on March 11, 2020. This historic event changed the world and reconstructed the existing social and political order. It caused rapid changes of a global nature. It happened almost all over the world. One of the few places the pandemic (or even knowledge of it) has not reached is the Old Order Amish community. The text describes mechanisms and strategies that effectively protect the described community from the outside world and its influence.