Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

Herausgeber: Lee, Becky R; Woo, Terry Tak-Ling

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their culturesâold and newâin modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a dynamic role in the shaping and reshaping of social cultures; women are active participants in their transmission and their transformation; and a focus on women's activities within their religious traditionsâoften informal and unofficialâprovides new perspectives on the intersection of religion, gender, and transnationalism. Since the first European migrations, Canada has been shaped by immigrant communities as they negotiated the tension between preserving their religious and cultural traditions and embracing the new opportunities in their adopted homeland. Viewing those interactions through the lens of women's religiosity, the essays in this collection model an innovative approach and provide new perspectives for students and researchers of Canadian Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 389
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781771121545
• ISBN-10: 1771121548
• Artikelnr.: 42055796

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities
, edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling Woo
Section I: Christianity and Judaism in Newfoundland, Ontario, and Alberta
1. "He's My Best Friend": Relationality, Materiality, and the Manipulation
of Motherhood in Devotion to St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland Marion
Bowman
2. "She Couldn't Come to the Table 'til She Was Churched": Anglican Women,
Childbirth, and Embodied Christian Practice in Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Bonnie Morgan
3. On the Margins of Church and Society: Roman Catholic Feminisms in
English-Speaking Canada Becky R. Lee
4. Unveiling Leah: Examining Women's Voices in Two Canadian Jewish Worship
Services Aviva Goldberg
Section II: New Religions in Canada
5. Charity Chicks: A Discourse-Analysis of Religious Self-Identification by
Rural Canadian Mormon Women Katherine Power
6. "The Whole World Opened Up": Women in Canadian Theosophy Gillian
McCann
7. Belief, Identity, and Social Action in the Lives of Bahá'í Women Lynn
Echevarria
Section III: South Asian Religions in Southwest Ontario
8. Being Hindu in Canada: Experiences of Women Anne Pearson and Preeti
Nayak
9. Women in Hinduism: Ritual Leadership in the Adhi Parasakthi Temple
Society of Canada Nanette Spina