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Women, Religion, and Space in China
Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty?...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin...
Published July 24th 2000 by Routledge