Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities - Paperback

by Becky R. Lee (Editor), Terry Tak-Ling Woo (Editor)

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures-old and new-in modern Canada.

Author Biography

Becky R. Lee is an associate professor in Humanities at York University. Her research and teaching are concerned with the intersection of religion and gender. A historian of religion, Lee's research has focused primarily on birthing rites in the middle ages. Her teaching centres on more contemporary issues including the relationship between religion and marginalization.
Terry Tak-ling Woo teaches in the Humanities Department at York University. She is interested in the roles women occupy and negotiate for themselves through religion. Her publications include "Chinese and Korean Religions" in Oxtoby and Amore (eds.), World Religions; and "Emotions and Self-cultivation in Nü Lunyu (A Woman's Analects)."