Read Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948

Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948

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Description:In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantiere, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel s 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.Bechtel s 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 Bechtel s life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercantiere in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtel s experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCC s 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948. To get started finding Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantiere, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel s 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.Bechtel s 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 Bechtel s life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercantiere in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtel s experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCC s 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948. To get started finding Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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