Living Our Religions : : Hindu and Muslim South Asian—American Women Narrate Their Experiences / / Bandana Purkayastha, Anjana Narayan.

• VerfasserIn: Narayan, Anjana,; Purkayastha, Bandana,
• MitwirkendeR: Chowdhury, Elora Halim,; Gurung, Shobha Hamal,; Jamil, Selina,; Kamal, Salma,; Majumdar, Shweta,; Narayan, Anjana,; Purkayastha, Bandana,; Ranjeet, Bidya,; Rao, Shanthi,; Saeed, Aysha,; Saha, Monoswita,; Saxena, Neela Bhattacharya,; Talpur, Parveen,; Zakaria, Rafia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2008]; Kumarian Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 p.)

Living Our Religions sheds important light on the lives of Hindu and Muslim American women of South Asian origin. As the authors reveal their diverse and culturally dynamic religious practices, describe the race, gender, and ethnic boundaries that they encounter, and document how they resist and challenge these boundaries, they cut through the myths and ethnocentrism of popular portrayals to reveal the vibrancy, courage, and agency of an "invisible" minority.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Religion, Gender, Boundaries -- 2 Transgressing the Sacred-Secular, Private-Public Divide -- 3 The Interconnecting Humanity: Connections Between Our Spiritual and Secular Worlds -- 4 Islam through a Mosaic of Cultures -- 5 At the Crossroads of Religions: The Experiences of a Newar Woman in Nepal and the United States -- 6 Color of God: Resplendent Clay of Hindu Images as the Glow of the Ineffable -- 7 I Am Muslim First -- 8 Red, Bulls, and Tea: Cultural Hashing of a 1.5er (A.K.A. Second-generation Reflections) -- 9 Interpretive Intervention: Religion, Gender, and Boundaries -- PART II Religion, Practices, Resistances -- 10 The Many Facets of Hinduism -- 11 Living Hinduism and Striving to Achieve Internal and External Harmony -- 12 Mapping the Memories of a Nepali Woman in the United States -- 13 Bengali, Bangladeshi yet Muslim -- 14 Religion as Inspiration, Religion as Action -- 15 Muslim Women between Dual Realities -- 16 Challenging the Master Frame through Dalit Organizing in the United States -- 17 Interpretive Intervention: Religion, Practices, and Resistances -- 18 Conclusion: Human Rights, Religions, Gender -- Appendix: Methodological Notes -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index