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Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora (Volume 10) (Advancing Studies in Religion Series) by sailaja krishnamurti and becky r. lee; Krishnamurti, Sailaja, 1976- editor; Lee, Becky R., editor is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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"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

Author

sailaja krishnamurti and becky r. lee; Krishnamurti, Sailaja, 1976- editor; Lee, Becky R., editor

Publisher

ACP - McGill Queen's University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780228009740

Subjects

Political Science, Religion, Christian