Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 177112153X . KB8...xvii, 371 pp. Bibliography, index. Occasional illustrations. Octavo. Hardcover, white front board with image of praying women and religious symbols. Covers are clean and unmarked, interior is fresh and clean, virtually as new. From the publisher: "This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a dynamic role in the shaping and reshaping of social cultures; women are active participants in their transmission and their transformation; and a focus on women's activities within their religious traditions—often informal and unofficial—provides new perspectives on the intersection of religion, gender, and transnationalism." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages .