PART THREE Diaspora, Spirituality, Kinship, and Nationhood: A Metis Woman's Perspective / Chantal Fiola. PART ONE NAVIGATING RELIGION, NATION, AND IDENTITY -- 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 -- 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 -- PART TWO WOMEN IN TRANSNATIONAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES -- 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 -- PART THREE BUILDING RELATIONS, IMAGINING FUTURES -- 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 Metis 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 Metis 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 Metis 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.
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