Women, Religion, and Space in China

Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-85330-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaschok, Maria

Shui, Jingjun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Women, Religion and Space During Times of China’s Political Transformation Part 1: Late Imperial and Republican China: History, Religion and Space - Daoist and Muslim Women in Kaifeng 2. Religious Pluralism and The Place of Kaifeng in Women’s History 3. Women-Led Religious Spaces and Modern Times 4. The Jiuku Miao in Kaifeng: Diverse Memories of a Women’s Daoist Temple 5. Investing Muslim Women’s Traditions with Modern Meaning Part 2: Republican China Modernization, Religion and Space – Catholic Women in Kaifeng 6. Contesting Female Space in Changing Times: The Catholic Providence Sisters and Chinese Catechists 7. Catholic Virgins and the Growth of Local Spaces for Women 8. The Tradition of Catholic Shouzhen Guniang in Jingang 9. A Political Campaign to Re-map Gendered Space, 1949-1958 Part 3: Communist China, and Beyond Women, Religion and Space in Contemporary Chinese Society 10. The Zhengzhou Beida Women’s Mosque: Tradition, Modernity and Identity 11. The Jiuku Miao: From Marginality to Legitimacy 12. Being Female, Being Celibate, Being Catholic. Conclusion: Women, Religion and Space: Freedom, Dependency and Inter-Dependence

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Jaschok is Director of the International Gender Studies at the University of Oxford.

Shui Jingjunis a Henan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences researcher.