1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 3
5. Navigating Religion, Nation, and Identity
6. Grounded Religiosities 19
7. Writing Home 45
8. The Role of Women in the Pre-Second World War Japanese Diaspora in Canada 75
9. Diasporic Sikh Women 93
10. Women in Transnational Religious Communities
11. Diaspora as a Spectrum 117
12. Chinese Buddhist Nuns in Canada 147
13. Syrian Malabar Christian Diaspora in Canada 171
14. Muslim Model Minorities and the Politics of Diasporic Piety 191
15. Building Relations, Imagining Futures
16. Brown Girl in the Ring 217
17. Towards a Canadian Islam 237
18. Diaspora, Spirituality, Kinship, and Nationhood 259
19. Contributors 281
20. Index 285