Living our religions
Subtitle: South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women narrate their experiences
By: edited by Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha.
Contributors: Narayan, Anjana, 1976-; Purkayastha, Bandana, 1956-
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781565492707; 9781565492714
Subjects: South Asian American women -- Religious life; Hindu women -- United States -- Social life and customs; Muslim women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha; title: Transgressing the sacred-secular, private-public divide / Bandana Purkayastha; title: The interconne(a)cting humanity : connections between our spiritual and secular world / Selina Jamil; title: Islam through a mosaic of cultures / Parveen Talpur; title: At the cross roads of religions : the experiences of a Newar woman in Nepal and the US / Bidya Ranjeet; title: Color of God : resplendent clay of Hindu images as the glow of the ineffable / Neela Bhattacharya Saxena; title: I am Muslim first / Salma Kamal; title: Red, bulls, and tea : cultural hashing of a 1.5er (a.k.a. second-generation reflections) / Monoswita Saha; title: Interpretive intervention : religion, gender, boundaries; title: Many facets of Hinduism / Anjana Narayan; title: Living Hinduism : striving to achieve internal and external harmony / Shanthi Rao; title: Growing up Hindu : mapping the memories of a Nepali woman in the US / Shobha Hamal Gurung; title: Bengali, Bangladesh yet Muslim / Elora Halim Chowdhury; title: Religion as inspiration, religion as action / Aysha Saeed; title: Muslim women between two realities / Rafia Zakaria; title: Challenging the master frame through dalit organizing in the US / Shweta Majumdar; title: Interpretive intervention : religion, practices, resistances; title: Conclusion : human rights, religion, and gender / Bandana Purkayastha.