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The gender of piety : family, faith, and colonial rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / Wendy Urban-Mead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urban-Mead, Wendy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Brethren in Christ Church.
- Sex role.
- Christianity and politics--Zimbabwe--Matabeleland--History--20th century.
- Christianity and politics.
- Matabeleland (Zimbabwe)--Church history--20th century.
- Matabeleland (Zimbabwe).
- Brethren in Christ Church--Zimbabwe--Matabeleland--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Brethren in Christ Church.
- Brethren in Christ Church--Zimbabwe--Matabeleland--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4527-8
- OCLC:
- 915059576
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