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