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Title: Women, Religion, and Space in China
Author : Maria Jaschok & Jingjun Shui
Release Date : January 02, 2012
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Religion & Spirituality,Islam,Christianity,
Pages : * pages
Size : 7952 KB

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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.