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Living Our Religions
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Introduction - Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha; Part I. Religion, Gender, Boundaries:; 1) Transgressing the Sacred-Secular, Private-Public Divide; 2) The Interconne(A)cting Humanity: Connections Between Our Spiritual And Secular World; 3) Islam Through a Mosaic of Cultures; 4) At the Cross Roads of Religions: The Experiences of a Newar Woman in Nepal and the US; 5) Color of God: Resplendent Clay of Hindu Images as the Glow of the Ineffable; 6) I am Muslim First; 7) Red, Bulls and Tea: Cultural Hashing of a 1.5er (a.k.a. Second-Generation Reflections); 8) Interpretive Intervention: Religion, Gender, Boundaries; Part II. Religion, Practices, Resistances:; 9) Many Facets of Hinduism; 10) Living Hinduism: Striving to Achieve Internal and External Harmony; 11) Growing Up Hindu: Mapping the Memories of a Nepali Woman in the US; 12) Bengali, Bangladesh yet Muslim; 13) Religion as Inspiration, Religion as Action; 14) Muslim Women Between Two Realities; 15) Challenging the Master Frame through Dalit Organizing in the US; 16) Interpretive Intervention: Religion, Practices, Resistances; 17) Conclusion: Human Rights, Religion, and Gender.

About the Author

Bandana Purkayastha is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of the book titled Negotiating Ethnicity - Second Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World (2005), and the co-editor of The Power of Women's Informal Networks- Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa (2004). She is also the Deputy Editor of the journal Gender and Society. Anjana Narayan is an Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

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"Lucid in its narration and heartfelt in scholars careful etching of their religious, culturally specific and spiritual selves as a rightful, albeit negotiated part of their lives in the USA, this volume of essays demonstrates the richness of everyday life in contrast to theoretical attempts at capturing the ethos of religion. In the process, it takes on some formidable binaries including modernity/tradition, West/East and secular/religious."

"Religion is both the most intimate experience as well as the most widely-shared in a community, providing solace to the uncertainties of life and death even as it inspires the finest creativity and fiercest wars. Is there an intellectual thread that can sew such seeming contradictions? No region is more afflicted by the passions of faith than South Asia. No one is better equipped to address its dilemmas than South Asian women, for their innate humanity sifts the excess from the essence. "Living Our Religions" provides a fascinating perspective on public space from the strength of the inner eye. It is a superb addition to a complex literature."

"The book is a powerful multiple critique of the still socially and religiously hegemonic orientalist, fundamentalist, conventional Western feminist (privileging the experiences of middle-class white women), and sensationalist mainstream mass media discourses about the place and status of women in religious traditions, in particular Hinduism and Islam."

"This book is an innovative collection of essays about religion and gender written by Hindu and Muslim women of South Asian orgin living in the United States. With minimal framing by the editors, the contributors explore their religions from diverse persepectives as spiritual journeys, ritual practices, inspirations for activism, and/or philosophical ideas. Most significantly, the authors provide alternative narratives to orientalist critiques of Hinduis and Islam's treatment of women... This book provides an excellent resource for undergraduate courses and allows students to understand the diversity of South Asian Hinuism and Islam and the experiences of religious minorities in the United States.

"This collection of thought-provoking essays illuminates our understanding of the multiple contexts that shape South Asian American women's religious experiences. Through nuanced narratives, the authors compel us to break down simplistic stereotypes about religion and South Asia and to take a fresh look at the linkages between gender and religion."

"This collection of vivid and provocative essays captures the rich diversity of religious experience among South Asian American women. It challenges popular assumptions about religion and South Asia."

"This highly topical book is both timely and reflective of the contemporary challenges faced by many women who belong to complex networks and communities, including religious communities and who recognise both the complexity that this relationship entails and its contribution to our universal understanding of humanity and spiritual well-being. It is an ambitious piece of work which successfully achieves its primary aim that is, to narrate the experiences of Hindu and Muslim South Asian Americanwomen based upon their personal and lived realities."

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