Disrupting Religious Mothering
Piety and Protest
Disrupting Religious Mothering
Piety and Protest
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Despite evolving interest and a growing body of literature, mothering remains highly understudied, particularly in relation to non-mainstream models of mothering and the global south. Especially, the ways in which mothering is inflected by faith and disciplined by communities and religious institutions as well as the transmission of that faith to children remain largely unrecognized in the scholarship. The volume addresses UN SDGs 5, 10 and 16 around gender equality, reduced inequalities and peace, justice and strong institutions.
This volume acknowledges that mothering is heavily coded and hedged by societal and religious expectation and constant scrutiny. Historically, and across various societies, religion had shaped norms of 'good' and 'bad' mothering. Simultaneously, mothers and women negotiate with these norms to achieve individual fulfilment, agency and selfhood within, through and sometimes against these. Through their mothering they nurture their children's capacity to discern their own religious and social identities. They may also inculcate novelty or amalgam in the process of transmitting tradition and evoke new ways of engaging children's curiosity and puzzlement about their faith in relation to the modern, secular and popular ways and beliefs that they routinely encounter. Far from mere instruction then, these processes may lead to newer ways of interpreting religion or negotiating the boundaries of community. This book charts mothers' narratives and their practices.
Foregrounding faith as an aspect of women's intersectional identities, their different expectations and experiences of mothering, and amplifying diverse women's voices this book will challenge normative ideas of good and bad mothers.
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Positioning Religious Mothering within Scholarship, Rowena Robinson (IIT Bombay, India), Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University, UK), and Sherin Sabu (IIT Jodhpur, India)
2. Motherhood and Meaning-Making: A Woman Ethnographer's Reflections of Journeying among Diverse Women of Faith, Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
3. Maternal Ijtihad and the Ethics of Voice: Reclaiming Interpretive Agency in South African Muslim Motherhoods, Shafieka Moos (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
4. Mothering at the Crossroads: Intersectionality and Lived Sikh Religiosity among Panjabi Mothers in Malaysia, Charanjit Kaur (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia), Sarjit S. Gill (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), and Ashwinder Kaur (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
5. Family Planning in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: Childlessness, Abortion and Sterilization as Sacrifices in the Making of the Ideal Pentecostal Self, Kim Beecheno (Uppsala University, Sweden)
6. Sacrificial Death and Motherhood in Contemporary Tibetan Children's Literature, Kati Fitzgerald (University of Minnesota, USA)
7. Midwifing Mothering: Mother Goddesses and Managing (In)Fertility among Tamil Hindus, Indira Arumugam (University of Singapore, Singapore)
8. Blood Ties and Buddhist Virtues: A Mother's Coping with Thalassemia in a Rural Sinhala Buddhist Village, TharindiUdalagama (University of Edinburgh, UK)
9. Liberation Redefined: The Spiritual-Feminist-Childfree Woman, Amrita Nandy (National Law School of India University, India)
10. Mothering and Deathbed Conversion Rituals: A Case of Roman Catholics in Tokyo, Hisako Omori (Akita International University, Japan)
11. Jewish Texts and National Baby Loss Awareness Week: Jewish Mothers Coping with Loss, Jennifer Verson (Leo Baeck College, UK)
12. “He Will Take Our Handicapped Lineage Forward”: Mothering Experiences of Women with Disabilities, Vinay Suhalka (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350616455 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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