Word: pietist
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...finally tracked down Donald Kraybill, a professor in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Kraybill, to my chagrin, told me there is in fact a lot of stuff going on with the Amish. Far more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole...
Like the Hutterites and other German pietist sects, the Amanas came to the U.S. from the Rhineland to escape state and established-church persecution for their beliefs, soon followed their prophet-leaders out to till 18,000 acres (since increased to 25,000) of rich Iowa prairie; they set up blanket mills and furniture shops, quarried sandstone and dug red clay for bricks to build austere homes and churches...
...country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...
...always does the Church know its own. Many a Senator bellows biblically in the Bryan-country, who never says his prayers in secret. But pietist-for-politics-only would be a most inadequate description of William E. Sweet, onetime Governor of Colorado, onetime banker, now candidate for the U. S. Senate, backed by farmers, laborers. Said the Christian Century...
...Lectures on "Representative Figures in the Religious History of Japan" IL. "A Social Catastrophe and the Work of a Pietist Saint," by Professor Anesaki in Emerson...