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The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through the first decade after independence. Taken together, these six lives show how men and women of the BICC experienced and sequenced their piety in different ways. Women usually remained tied to the church throughout their lives, while men often had a more strained relationship with it. Church doctrine was not always flexible enough to accommodate expected masculine gender roles, particularly male memb

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In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Anabaptists --- Americans --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- War relief --- Disaster relief --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Catabaptists --- Habans --- Reformation --- Baptists --- Peasants' War, 1524-1525 --- Civilian relief --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Bechtel, Elsie, --- Brethren in Christ Church --- BICC --- Brethren in Christ --- Church of the Brethren in Christ --- Lavercantière (France)