Description: Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how these women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past.
Brief description: Sailaja Krishnamurti is associate professor of religious studies and women and gender studies at Saint Mary's University.
Review Quotes: "Relation and Resistance is a compelling addition to the fields of gender, religious, and diaspora studies, with an impressive range of scholars featured, and each chapter making a collaborative and sustained contribution to the topic under discussion." Ayesha Chaudhry, University of British Columbia and author of The Colour of God