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Relation and resistance : racialized women, religion, and diaspora / edited by Sailaja V. Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Krishnamurti, Sailaja, 1976- editor.
Lee, Becky R., editor.
Series:
Advancing Studies in Religion
Advancing Studies in Religion ; v.10
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women and religion--Canada.
Women and religion.
Minority women--Religious life--Canada.
Minority women.
Feminism--Canada.
Feminism.
Canada--Religion.
Canada.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (311 pages)
Place of Publication:
Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2021]
Summary:
Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how these women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past.
Contents:
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction Conceptualizing the Study of Women and Diasporic Religion
Part One Navigating Religion ,Nation, and Identity
2 Grounded Religiosities Women Navigating Hindu Identity and Social Justice
3 Writing Home Diaspora, Identity, and Religion in Halfbreed and In Search of April Raintree
4 The Role of Women in the Pre-Second World War Japanese Diaspora in Canada
5 Diasporic Sikh Women Negotiating Gender Equality in Montreal
Part II Women in Transnational Religious Communities
6 Diaspora as a Spectrum Punjabi-Sikh Subjects and the Gendered Context of Diaspora Membership
7 Chinese Buddhist Nuns in Canada From Subservience to Spiritual Leadership
8 Syrian Malabar Christian Diaspora in Canada Women and the Rebuilding of Faith
9 Muslim Model Minorities and the Politics of Diasporic Piety
Part III Building Relations, Imagining Futures
10 Brown Girl in the Ring Caribbean Subversive Knowledges and the Discourse of Canadian Citizenship
11Towards a Canadian Islam The Change-Making Power of Young Muslim Women
12 Diaspora, Spirituality, Kinship, and Nationhood A Métis Woman's Perspective
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (varied pages)and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-2280-0973-1
0-2280-0974-X
OCLC:
1251927267

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