Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques

Autor: Jaschok, Maria
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2025
Předmět:
piety
China
Muslim women
mosque
female voices
Islamic precepts
orthodox Islam
gendered practices
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups
communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies
gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls

thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::G Reference
Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies

thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRL East Asian religions
Druh dokumentu: book
DOI: 10.4324/9781032618609
Popis: This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim women’s mosques in central China. By drawing on a ‘Song Book’ of chants, collected from the tradition of women’s mosques, as context it reveals just how the increasing prominence of female voices has given rise to considerable misgivings among senior religious leaders over the potential destabilization of orthodox Islamic gendered practices. Providing a historical introduction to the place and function of Islamic chants,jingge and zansheng, the book gives a conceptual framing of female silence, sound, and agency in local translations of Confucian and Islamic precepts, and women’s personal accounts of the role played by traditional and modern soundscapes in transmitting and celebrating Islamic knowledge and faith. As a study of women's soundscapes and the significance of legitimacy, ambiguities, and implications of female sound, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Chinese society and culture, gender studies, cultural anthropology, and Islam.
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