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Amish are a Christian community that emerged on the historical stage as a branch of the Anabaptist movement that arose in 16th-century Europe and has sought to preserve its beliefs and way of life far from the influences of the modern world. Their rejection of infant baptism and acceptance only of conscious adult baptism distinguished them from Catholic and mainstream Protestant groups. Following a schism in the 1690s centered on the views of Jacob Ammann, his followers gradually came to be know