Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui

Women, Religion, and Space in China (eBook, PDF)

Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women found space to hold firm in their religious beliefs and withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime in China that held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136680625
• Artikelnr.: 38273043

Autorenporträt

Maria Jaschok is Director of the International Gender Studies at the University of Oxford.

Shui Jingjun is a Henan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences researcher.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Women, Religion and Space During Times of China's Political
Transformation Part 1: Late Imperial and Republican China: History,
Religion and Space - Daoist and Muslim Women in Kaifeng 2. Religious
Pluralism and The Place of Kaifeng in Women's History 3. Women-Led
Religious Spaces and Modern Times 4. The Jiuku Miao in Kaifeng: Diverse
Memories of a Women's Daoist Temple 5. Investing Muslim Women's Traditions
with Modern Meaning Part 2: Republican China Modernization, Religion and
Space - Catholic Women in Kaifeng 6. Contesting Female Space in Changing
Times: The Catholic Providence Sisters and Chinese Catechists 7. Catholic
Virgins and the Growth of Local Spaces for Women 8. The Tradition of
Catholic Shouzhen Guniang in Jingang 9. A Political Campaign to Re-map
Gendered Space, 1949-1958 Part 3: Communist China, and Beyond Women,
Religion and Space in Contemporary Chinese Society 10. The Zhengzhou Beida
Women's Mosque: Tradition, Modernity and Identity 11. The Jiuku Miao: From
Marginality to Legitimacy 12. Being Female, Being Celibate, Being Catholic.
Conclusion: Women, Religion and Space: Freedom, Dependency and
Inter-Dependence