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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Harmful Cultural Practices

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These include female genital mutilation (FGM), virginity testing, hymenoplasty, and genital cosmetic surgery.Bringing together comparative perspectives, intersectionality, and interdisciplinarity, it uses feminist methodology and mixed methods, with ethnography of central ... Leer más

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  • Ethnographies of Islam in China

    In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political contestations over ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Women Organizing

    Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers

    Series series Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
    In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in ... Leer más

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  • The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam

    This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, ... Leer más

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  • Women, Religion, and Space in China

    Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

    Series series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques

    ‘This Turmoil of the Soul’

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim women’s mosques in central China.By drawing on a ‘Song Book’ of chants, collected from the tradition of women’s mosques, as context it reveals just how the increasing prominence of female voices has given rise to considerable ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions

    Series series Library of Global Ethics & Religion
    This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women's rights, the role of international law, and responsibility for the environment. It also includes a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions", presented at the third Parliament ... Leer más

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  • Pure and True

    The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims

    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism

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  • A Muslim Diaspora in Australia

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    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
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