04973cam a2200709Ii 4500 ocn915059576 OCoLC 20200709060358.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 150729t20152015ohu ob 001 0ceng d N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T OCLCO YDXCP EBLCP NLGGC OCLCO VLB LOA UAB K6U FVL JSTOR 9780821445273 (electronic bk.) 0821445278 (electronic bk.) 9780821421574 0821421573 9780821421581 0821421581 1044811 (N$T) (OCoLC)915059576 2120534 Proquest Ebook Central 22573/ctt1rbwmft JSTOR f-rh--- BX9675.A43 U73 2015eb BIO 018000 bisacsh REL 094000 bisacsh HIS000000 bisacsh REL000000 bisacsh HIS001000 bisacsh SOC032000 bisacsh 289.7/6891 23 MAIN Urban-Mead, Wendy, author. The gender of piety : family, faith, and colonial rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / Wendy Urban-Mead. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The gender of piety in Matabeleland -- Matshuba Ndlovu: masculinity and faith in Matabeleland, 1898/1930 -- Maria Tshuma: chastity and female piety, 1920/70 -- Nakaseyemephi Ngwenya: a church planter Emaguswini, 1950/73 -- Sandey Vundhla: being fruitful for the church, 1950/70 -- Mansimango (Sithembile Nkala): sellouts, comrades, and Christians in the liberation war, 1969/78 -- Stephen N. Ndlovu: gendered piety, the new Zimbabwe, and the Gukurahundi, 1980/89 -- Gendered lives of piety -- Ndlovu and Nsimango family tree. Print version record. 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 membership in political and economic institutions or participation in important male communal practices. The study is based on more than fifteen years of extensive oral history research supported by archival work in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The oral accounts make it clear, official versions to the contrary, that the church was led by spiritually powerful women and that maleness and mission-church notions of piety were often incompatible. The life-history approach illustrates how the tension of gender roles both within and without the church manifested itself in sometimes unexpected ways: for example, how a single family could produce both a legendary woman pastor credited with mediating multiple miracles and a man - her son - who joined the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union nationalist political party and fought in Zimbabwe's liberation war in the 1970s. Investigating the lives of men and women in equal measure, The Gender of Piety uses a gendered interpretive lens to analyze the complex relationship between the church and broader social change in this region of southern Africa. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Brethren in Christ Church Zimbabwe Matabeleland History 20th century Case studies. Brethren in Christ Church Zimbabwe Matabeleland Biography. Brethren in Christ Church. Sex role Religious aspects Brethren in Christ Church. Christianity and politics Zimbabwe Matabeleland History 20th century. Matabeleland (Zimbabwe) Church history 20th century. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious bisacsh RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations bisacsh HISTORY / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Urban-Mead, Wendy. Gender of piety 9780821421574 (DLC) 2015016213 (OCoLC)895302129 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1044811 EBSCOhost EBSC 1044811 YBP Library Services YANK 12547784 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL2120534 92 N$T 56338 56338