"A wonderful recovery of the lives of a forgotten and betrayed cohort of people.
" Paul S. Landau, author of "Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400 to 1948"
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...

"A wonderful recovery of the lives of a forgotten and betrayed cohort of people.
" Paul S. Landau, author of "Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400 to 1948"
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...