| Description |
1 online resource (x, 298 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Advancing studies in religion ; 10
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Advancing studies in religion ; 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Conceptualizing the study of women and diasporic religion / Sailaja V. Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee -- Grounded religiosities: Women navigating Hindu identity and social justice / Sailaja V. Krishnamurti -- Writing home: Diaspora, identity, and religion in Halfbreed and In Search of April Raintree / Ken Derry -- The role of women in the pre-Second World War Japanese Diaspora in Canada / Cary Takagaki -- Diasporic Sikh women: Negotiating gender equality in Montreal / Julie Vig -- Diaspora as a spectrum: Punjabi-Sikh subjects and the gendered context of diaspora membership / Preet Kaur Virdi -- Chinese Buddhist nuns in Canada: From subservience to spiritual leadership / Henry Shiu -- Syrian Malabar Christian Diaspora in Canada: Women and the rebuilding of faith / Lina Samuel -- Muslim model minorities and the politics of diasporic piety / Nadia Z. Hasan -- Brown girl in the ring: Caribbean subversive knowledges and the discourse of Canadian citizenship / Andrea A. Davis -- Towards a Canadian Islam: The change-making power of young Muslim women / Rima Berns-McGown -- Diaspora, spirituality, kinship, and nationhood: A Métis woman's perspective / Chantal Fiola. |
| Summary |
"In Canada, women's bodies are often at the centre of debates about religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Women have long played a critical role in building and maintaining diasporic religious communities and networks, and they have also been catalysts for change and transformation within religious groups and the wider community. Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past. The collected essays include chapters on feminist and queer women thinking critically about Hindu and Muslim identities and beliefs and challenging anti-Black racism and settler colonialism, Afro-Caribbean and Métis writers using literature to explore religion and belonging, the impact of women's participation in Japanese, Chinese, and Pakistani transnational religious organizations, and marriage, migration and gender equality in the Punjabi Sikh and Malayali Christian communities. The volume closes with a chapter exploring Métis diasporic experience and inviting readers to think critically about diasporic religion on Indigenous land. An innovative and timely volume, Relation and Resistance reveals that a deeper understanding of women's experiences of displacement, migration, race, and gender is critical to the study of religion in Canada."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women and religion -- Canada.
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Women and religion. |
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Canada. |
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Minority women -- Religious life -- Canada.
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Minority women. |
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Religious life. |
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Feminism -- Canada.
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Feminism. |
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Canada -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Krishnamurti, Sailaja, 1976- editor.
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Lee, Becky R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Relation and resistance. Montreal, Quebec ; Kingston, Ontario ; London, England ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021] 0228008522 (OCoLC)1241245498 |
| ISBN |
9780228009733 epdf |
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0228009731 epdf |
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9780228009740 epub |
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022800974X epub |
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9780228008521 cloth |
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0228008522 cloth |
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9780228008538 paper |
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0228008530 paper |
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