| Title:
|
WOMEN, RELIGION, AND SPACE IN CHINA
ISLAMIC MOSQUES & DAOIST TEMPLES, CATHOLIC CONVENTS & CHINESE VIRGINS |
| By: |
Maria Jaschok, Shui Jingjun |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£145.00 |
| Our price: |
£130.50 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£14.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0415874858 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415874854 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 June, 2011 |
| Series: |
Routledge International Studies of Women and Place |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
30 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 30 black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|