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Canadian women shaping diasporic religious identities
xviii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
Part A. Christianity and Judaism in Newfoundland, Ontario, and Alberta. "He's my best friend": relationality, materiality, and the manipulation of motherhood in devotion to St. Gerard Majella in Newfoundland / Marion Bowman -- "She couldn't come to the table 'til she was churched": Anglican women, childbirth, and embodied Christian practice in Conception Bay, Newfoundland / Bonnie Morgan -- On the margins of church and society: Roman Catholic feminisms in English-speaking Canada / Becky R. Lee -- Unveiling Leah: examining women's voices in two Canadian Jewish worship services / Aviva Goldberg -- Part B. New religions in Canada. Charity chicks: a discourse-analysis of religious self-identification of rural Canadian Mormon women / Kate Power -- "The whole world opened up": women in Canadian Theosophy / Gillian McCann -- Belief, identity, and social action in the lives of Baháʹí women / Lynn Echevarria -- Part C. South Asian religions in southwest Ontario. Being Hindu in Canada: experiences of women / Anne M. Pearson with Preeti Nayak -- Women in Hinduism: ritual leadership in the Adhi Parasakthi Temple Society of Canada / Nanette R. Spina -- Conclusion.
Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling Woo, editors.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index.
Etudes sur les femmes et la religion ; v. 13