Women, Religion, and Space in China : Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins Paperback / softback
by Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui
Part of the Routledge International Studies of Women and Place series
Paperback / softback
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What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state?
How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty?
Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women’s mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China.
These women passionately – often against unimaginable odds – defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.
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- Pages:296 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 30 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/08/2013
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- ISBN:9780415853309
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 30 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/08/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415853309
