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Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities
Becky R (Ed) Lee
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Description for Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities
Paperback. 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 cultures old and new in modern Canada. " Editor(s): Lee, Becky R.; Woo, Terry Tak-Ling. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HRA; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
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 culturesaold and newain 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 ... Read more
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 culturesaold and newain 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
527 g
Number of Pages
389
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771121545
SKU
V9781771121545
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99-15
About Becky R (Ed) Lee
Becky R. Lee is an associate professor in Humanities at York University. Her research and teaching are concerned with the intersection of religion and gender. A historian of religion, Leeas research has focused primarily on birthing rites in the middle ages. Her teaching centres on more contemporary issues including the relationship between religion and marginalization. Terry Tak-ling Woo teaches in ... Read more
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