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PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100228008530

ISBN-139780228008538

eBay Product ID (ePID)10050032350

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Book TitleRelation and Resistance : Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Religion, Politics & State

Publication Year2021

GenreReligion

AuthorBecky R. Lee

Book SeriesAdvancing Studies in Religion Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

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LCCN2021-386541

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Relation and Resistance is a compelling addition to the fields of gender, religious, and diaspora studies, with an impressive range of scholars featured, and each chapter making a collaborative and sustained contribution to the topic under discussion." A, "Relation and Resistance is a compelling addition to the fields of gender, religious, and diaspora studies, with an impressive range of scholars featured, and each chapter making a collaborative and sustained contribution to the topic under discussion." Ayesha Chaudhry, University of British Columbia and author of The Colour of God, " Relation and Resistance is a compelling addition to the fields of gender, religious, and diaspora studies, with an impressive range of scholars featured, and each chapter making a collaborative and sustained contribution to the topic under discussion." Ayesha Chaudhry, University of British Columbia and author of The Colour of God, "Krishnamurti and Lee's timely contribution to the fields of diaspora studies, religious studies, and transnational Canadian studies opens up conversations about the intersections of race, religion, and diaspora. The work allows for a new framing of diaspora as a shifting and expansive category to open up new possibilities of understanding racialized communities across Canada." University of Toronto Quarterly

Series Volume Number10

Dewey Decimal200.820971

SynopsisIn 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberBL458