Heisey M. J., Heisey Nancy Relief Work as Pilgrimage: Mademoiselle Miss Elsie in Southern France, 1945 1948 9781498508100

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Автор: Heisey M. J., Heisey Nancy
Название: Relief Work as Pilgrimage: Mademoiselle Miss Elsie in Southern France, 1945 1948
ISBN: 9781498508100
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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История Европы

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Христианская миссионерская деятельность и евангелизм

ISBN-10: 1498508103
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 194
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 20.08.2015
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 11 black & white illustrations
Размер: 236 x 161 x 22
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: "mademoiselle miss elsie" in southern france, 1945-1948
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercanti re, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtels diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948, she recorded her encounters with French society and her immersion in the spare beauty of rural France. From her daily work came passionate musings on the emotional world of human interactions and evocative observations of the American, Spanish, and French co-workers and children with whom she lived. As a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Bechtel was part of the war relief efforts of pacifist Quakers and Anabaptists. In France between 1939 and 1948, MCC programs distributed clothing, shared food, and sheltered refugee children. The work began in the far southwest of France but, by the time Bechtel completed her service in 1948, had moved to the Alsace region, where French Mennonites clustered. Bechtels writings emerged from a religious context that included much travel, but little reflection on the significance of that travel. Yet, religiously motivated travel--an old tradition in southwest France--shaped Bechtels life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercanti re in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtels experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCCs work in France, gathered oral and written narratives of participants, and researched other war relief efforts in Spain and France in the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on these various contexts, the authors establish the complexity, but also the significance, of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

Relief Work as Pilgrimage: Mademoiselle Miss Elsie in Southern France, 1945 1948, Heisey M. J., Heisey Nancy