Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

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Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins
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Contents
Historical Chronology and Capital Cities
List of Acronyms
Maps
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Women, Religion and Space During Times of China’s Political Transformation
PART I Late Imperial and Republican China: History, Religion and Space—Daoist and Muslim Women in Kaifeng
	2 Religious Pluralism and the Place of Kaifeng in Women’s History
	3 Women-Led Religious Spaces and Modern Times
	4 The Jiuku Miao in Kaifeng: Diverse Memories of a Women’s Daoist Temple
	5 Investing Muslim Women’s Traditions with Modern Meaning
PART II Republican China: Modernization, Religion and Space—Catholic Women in Kaifeng
	6 Contesting Female Space in Changing Times: The Catholic Providence Sisters and Chinese Catechists
	7 Catholic Virgins and the Growth of Local Spaces for Women
	8 The Tradition of Catholic Shouzhen Guniang in Jingang
	9 A Political Campaign to Re-map Gendered Space, 1949–1958
PART III Communist China, and Beyond: Women, Religion and Space in Contemporary Chinese Society
	10 The Zhengzhou Beida Women’s Mosque: Tradition, Modernity and Identity
	11 The Jiuku Miao: From Marginality to Legitimacy
	12 Being Female, Being Celibate, Being Catholic
Conclusion: Women, Religion and Space: Freedom, Dependency and Inter-Dependence
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Index