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Author Jaschok, Maria

Title Women, religion, and space in China : Islamic mosques & Daoist temples, Catholic convents & Chinese virgins / Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun
Published New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Routledge international studies of women and place ; 12
Routledge international studies of women and place ; 12.
Contents pt. 1. Late imperial and republican China : history, religion and space : Daoist and Muslim women in Kaifeng -- pt. 2. Republican China : modernization, religion and space : Catholic women in Kaifeng -- pt. 3. Communist China, and beyond : women, religion and space in contemporary Chinese society
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sacred space -- China -- Kaifeng Shi Region -- History -- 20th century
Women and religion -- China -- Kaifeng Shi Region -- History -- 20th century
Sacred space -- China -- Kaifeng Shi Region -- History -- 21st century
Women and religion -- China -- Kaifeng Shi Region -- History -- 21st century
Spiritual retreats for women -- China
Mosques -- China
Muslim women -- China
Catholic women -- China
Taoist women -- China
Convents -- China
RELIGION -- Reference.
Catholic women
Convents
Mosques
Muslim women
Religion
Sacred space
Spiritual retreats for women
Taoist women
Women and religion
SUBJECT Kaifeng Shi Region (China) -- Religion -- 20th century
Kaifeng Shi Region (China) -- Religion -- 21st century
Subject China
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Shui, Jingjun
LC no. 2010053895
ISBN 9780203810224
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