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Rebuilding community : displaced women and the making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim sociality / Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023

xi, 262 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karte

Englisch

1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community -- 2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970 -- Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972 -- 3. Fostering Sacred Spaces -- 4. Storying Divine Intervention -- 5. Culinary Placemaking -- 6. Placemaking in the Second Generation -- 7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

Erscheint auch als: Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- : Rebuilding community. - 1. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-764203-0 (paperback); 978-0-19-764202-3 (hardback)

978-0-19-764205-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2023006056

OCoLC: 1376044370     

BP67.A3

305.48/6970973     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SUEDASIEN-DE-16

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*Hodjas ; Diaspora <Religion> ; USA      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Muslim women -- United States -- Attitudes ; Muslim women -- Religious life -- United States ; Women in Islam -- United States ; Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions ; Women -- United States -- Social conditions ; Ismailites -- United States ; Women refugees -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions ; Women refugees -- Africa, East -- Social conditions

"This book uncovers the stories of care, help, and support that dozens of Ismaili Muslim women have extended to coreligionists against the dislocating effects of wars and forced migration. Focusing on two cohorts of women (one who fled East Pakistan in the early 1970s due to civil war, and the other who was forced to leave East Africa during the same time, when Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda and anti-Asian sentiments intensified in Kenya and Tanzania), it tells the tale of how they began the individual and collective work of remaking religious community in the diaspora"--