Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques This Turmoil of the Soul

• Main Author: Jaschok, Maria
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China.
• Subjects: Anthropology; China; East Asian religions; female voices; Gender studies, gender groups; gendered practices; History; Interdisciplinary studies; Islam; Islamic precepts; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; mosque; Muslim women; Nonfiction; orthodox Islam; Other religions and spiritual beliefs; Philosophy and Religion; piety; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Religion; Religion & Spirituality; Religion and beliefs; Religion: general; Rituals & Practice; Social and cultural anthropology; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Women's Studies; female voices; orthodox Islam; mosque; China; Islamic precepts; piety; gendered practices; Muslim women

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...