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Books on: women and asian religion

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South Asian Religions in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography of Immigrant Religious Traditions

Book by John Y. Fenton; Greenwood Press, 1995

Subjects:

America--Religion--Bibliography, Immigrants--Religious Life--America--Bibliography, South Asia--Religion--Bibliography, South Asians--America--Religion--Bibliography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Campbell Davis. "South Asian and Anglo Saxon Women in Canada: Attitudes...five per cent of the women were Hindu, 14 per cent...that their traditional religion was stronger in Canada...of 153 Anglo-Saxon women 4.6 per cent perceived...
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Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America

Book by Shamita Das Dasgupta; Rutgers University Press, 2007

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Family Violence--United States, South Asian American Women--Services For--United States, South Asian American Women--Violence Against--United States, South Asian Americans--Social Conditions, Victims Of Family Violence--United States, Women Immigrants--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States, Women Immigrants--Violence Against--United States

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...status and respect. Women as mothers are elevated...feet. As daughters, women are cherished as temporary...death. However, for a woman faced with domestic...the obstacles south Asian Muslim women face from their religion, culture, and families...
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South Asian Women in the Diaspora

Book by Nirmal Puwar, Parvati Raghuram; Berg, 2003

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South Asians--Foreign Countries--Congresses, Women--South Asia--Congresses

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...relating specifically to Asian women's activism is scarce...place the needs of Asian women before the needs of Asian males, the community, religion or culture. It is this...force that has led to women's projects being set...
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Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

Book by Gabriele Griffin; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Asians In Literature, Asians--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--21st Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--Asian Authors--History And Criticism, English Drama--Black Authors--History And Criticism, English Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain, Feminist Drama, English--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain, Women, Black, In Literature, Women, Black--Great Britain--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

among the women as they portray issues...required to afford all the women involved the protection...speaking, Muslim Pakistani woman who has come to the refuge...her husband. All three women thus present a pattern...all pervasive amongst Asian families, irrespective of religion, caste and class (1997...
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Asian American Women Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1997

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American Literature--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--Asian American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Asian American Women In Literature, Asian Americans In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...shorthand references to my community, my religion, my class, my region, or my old school...and raucous homesteader, Huck Finn and Woman Warrior, on the unclaimed plains of American...Mukherjee, "Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman," The Writer on Her Work: New Essays...

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Journal Articles on: women and asian religion

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Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion and Women Warriors

Journal article by Bradford Clark; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 26, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popu;ar Religion and Women Warriors (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Theatre: History, Popular Religion and Women Warriors. by Bradford Clark...HISTORY, POPULAR RELIGION AND WOMEN WARRIORS. By Fan Pen Li Chen...and the representation of women warriors within many shadow...within these plays that the woman warrior figures are most often...
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All Our Goddesses Are Armed: Religion, Resistance, and Revenge in the Life of a Militant Hindu Nationalist Woman

Journal article by Paola Bacchetta; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 25, 1993

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Asia

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The concept that mixture with other religions is polluting (or otherwise destructive...in particular, threatening to Hindu women. In Kamlabehns discourse, "Hindu culture" and "Hindu religion" are nearly synonymous terms. The...way of life. For Kamlabehn, Hindu religion is "scientific and rational": "One...
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Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology

Journal article by Jonathan Y. Tan; Theological Studies, Vol. 69, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Off The Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Womens Religion and Theology. by Jonathan...for North American women theology demonstrates...Asian-North American women compared to their white...North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry...
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Sheltered by Dhamma: Reflecting on Gender, Security and Religion in Cambodia

Journal article by Alexandra Kent; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 42, 2011

Subjects:

Cambodia--Demographic aspects, Cambodia--Religious aspects, Cambodia--Social aspects, Sex differences (Biology)--Analysis, Sex discrimination against women--Analysis, Women and religion--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Maring and Khmer religion. I nevertheless...of conduct for women traditionally portrayed...the ideal Khmer woman as virtuous and...case for a young woman. She might enter...codes exclude all women from the core realm of formal religion, women may nevertheless...Ecology, meaning and religion. (19) Judy Ledgerwood...conceptions of gender: Women, stories, and...Viewing the virtuous woman in the Khmer story...
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Not Just Fryers of Bananas and Sweet Potatoes: Literate and Literary Women in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World

Journal article by Mulaika Hijjas; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, 2010

Subjects:

Asian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Asian literature--Demographic aspects, Literacy--Malaysia, Literacy--Portrayals, Oriental literature--Criticism and interpretation, Oriental literature--Demographic aspects, Women and literature, Women in literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...both in matters of religion and in dealings with...his didactic poem for women, Syair Siti Sianah...a virtuous and pious woman and an exemplary wife...women, but the syair by women of his family suggests...them. (99) Tucker, Women in nineteenth-century...belong to a Penyengat woman, Raja Halimah Abdullah...Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 1999), pp...

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Magazine Articles on: women and asian religion

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Saving India through Its Women: Sean Lang Tells of the Dufferin Fund, an Aristocratic Initiative Supported by Queen Victoria to Improve Medical Conditions, Particularly in Childbirth, for Indian Women in the Late 19th Century

Magazine article by Sean Lang; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005

Subjects:

Fund raising--History, Fund raising--Political aspects, Indians (Asian people)--Care and treatment, Indians (Asian people)--History, Indians--Care and treatment, Indians--History, Women physicians--Donations, Women physicians--History, Women physicians--Training, Women--Care and treatment, Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the medical needs of Indian women. According to Lady Dufferins...suggested that medical aid for women was a subject to which I might...unrecorded, and since neither woman made any mention of it in their...directed to the plight of Indian women by a visit she had received...but not to connect this with religion at all. The stricture against...
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Bang the Drum - Not: Women-Church in the Desert

Magazine article by Catherine Walsh; Commonweal, Vol. 120, June 4, 1993

Subjects:

Women--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...women of other races and religions, organizers of the event...expressing Christian beliefs. Women were encouraged, however...African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic...an attempt "to bring women together across a great...was right. Minority women were highly visible as...Simunek, a Filipina woman who spoke on education...
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From the Story Circle to Cyberspace

Magazine article by Jennifer Lafontaine; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Changes, Community, Digital photography, Leadership training, Religion, Technical support, Technology, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...online and each of the women will leave the program...and more tears. Each woman bravely tells her story of the women whose blood flows in...language, ability, and religion. However, the simple...abuse, immigration, religion, and family. They...leaders help support women in deciding when to...storytelling circle, a woman said, "I know the...
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Using Women to Fight Extremism

Magazine article by Delinda C. Hanley; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 29, April 2010

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Leadership, Peace negotiations, Religion, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...century, Rather stated. Women can bring to the table...said. Several talented women told luncheon guests...parents. The first South Asian and the first Muslim woman appointed to the Upper...improve the lives of women living in conflict zones...and crossing out their religion on their IDs, Akl said...
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In My Voice

Magazine article by Salima Bhimani; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Islam, Muslim Americans, Religion, Scripts, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...experiences of the women I had danced with...purpose. As a South Asian Muslim Woman, I felt the burden...of being a Muslim woman because life is not...linear. All the women in my encounters...ways in which Muslim women live and think about...experience of being Woman, Muslim, and of...

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Newspaper Articles on: women and asian religion

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Who Will Save the Black Sisters Who Will Save the Black Sisters Now? HOME TRUTHS: Aishwarya Rai and Nicholas Irons in the 2006 Film Provoked, the True Story of an Asian Woman Who Killed Her Violent Husband

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 30, 2008

Subjects:

Charities

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the True Story of an Asian Woman Who Killed Her Violent...Caribbean and Asian women, it seems, is not enough...servicesdevoted to one race or religion. But there are times...wouldnt turn away a white woman and would referher to...ofthousands of young women from Asian communities...
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The Importance of Encouraging More Asian Women into Public Life in Wales Cannot Be Understated; Their Talents Range from Medicine, to Law and Dance. AbbieWightwick Meets Eight Inspirational Award-Winning Welsh Asian Women Making Their Mark

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 4, 2012

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Importance of Encouraging More Asian Women into Public Life...encouraging more Asian women into public life in Wales...disapproved At the time women - let alone Asian women - were not always welcome...around "So a coloured woman was a big problem...talk about culture and religion and why we have it done...
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Having a Smashing Time despite the Glass Ceilings; Tom Fleming Speaks to a British Asian Woman about Her Journey to the Top of a Midland Care Company

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 1, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Speaks to a British Asian Woman about Her Journey to...proud to be British Asian, born and bred in the...positive role to many women and feels this is due...Being of the Sikh religion they experienced resistance...were only a handful of Asians here and life for them...to be a pretty strong woman to survive in a mans...
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Britain's Hidden Gendercide; Millions of Women in India, Desperate for Male Heirs, Abort Female Babies. Even More Shocking, Says Novelist LADY DESAI, Is That Sophisticated British Asian Mothers Are Doing the Same Thing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 11, 2010

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Novelists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Sophisticated British Asian Mothers Are Doing the...anxious-looking Indian woman who has been staring...be pleased. But the woman is lying -- just as hundreds of other British women of Indian origin do every...of the hospital, the woman shudders, knowing full...transcends class, caste and religion, but which has spread...
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Perspective: My New Life as a Muslim Woman; Most of Us Reach a Point in Life When We Question the Direction Our Lives Are Leading. Emma Pinch Meets a Woman Whose Answer Was to Embrace a Completely New Religion and Culture

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 23, 2005

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Fast food restaurants, Wendy's International Inc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Life as a Muslim Woman; Most of Us Reach...Emma Pinch Meets a Woman Whose Answer Was...a Completely New Religion and Culture. Byline...half of those are women. Wendy wears her...Most Muslims were Asian or Arabic not English...certainly thought the women had to wear the scarf...that as a Western woman. It was the beliefs...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women and asian religion

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...American descent in part. The Asian population totaled 10,242...background that was partially Asian. The Native American population...many other Indo-European and Asian languages, and most languages...than a quarter are from Asia. Religion and Education There is religious...
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Turkey , Country, Asia and Europe

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Land and People Asian Turkey (made up...The center of W Asian Turkey is made up...western portion of Asian Turkey) is one of...suffrage (extended to women in 1934), and for...ceased to be the state religion and the Latin alphabet...minister, the first woman to hold that post...
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Thailand

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Theravada Buddhism is the state religion; some 95% of the people are...the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1967...guaranteed equal rights for women, and reduced membership in...1997, setting off a crisis in Asian financial markets and plunging...
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New Zealand

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Almost 5% of the population is of Asian descent, while Pacific Islanders make...languages. New Zealand has no established religion; the three largest faiths are Anglican...was the first country to grant (1893) women the right to vote. A comprehensive social...since 1990, became New Zealands first woman prime minister. The Labor party, led...

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