WEBINAR | Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora

Open to all 2021 members of the CCSR Societies

Registration

Join editors Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee for webinar on their new edited volume, Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora. The webinar will be chaired by Sarah Wilkins LaFlamme, University of Waterloo and is hosted by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion.

Sailaja Krishnamurti is associate professor of religious studies and women and gender studies at Saint Mary's University. Becky R. Lee is professor emerita and senior scholar in humanities at York University.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past. The collected essays include chapters on feminist and queer women thinking critically about Hindu and Muslim identities and beliefs and challenging anti-Black racism and settler colonialism; Afro-Caribbean and Métis writers using literature to explore religion and belonging; the impact of women’s participation in Japanese, Chinese, and Pakistani transnational religious organizations; and marriage, migration, and gender equality in the Punjabi Sikh and Malayali Christian communities. The volume closes with a chapter exploring Métis diasporic experience and inviting readers to think critically about diasporic religion on Indigenous land.