Relation and Resistance

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.

Sailaja Krishnamurti is associate professor of religious studies and women and gender studies at Saint Mary's University.Lee Becky R. :

Becky R. Lee is professor emerita and senior scholar in humanities at York University.Sailaja Krishnamurti is associate professor of religious studies and women and gender studies at Saint Mary’s University. Becky R. Lee is professor emerita and senior scholar in humanities at York University.

“Krishnamurti and Lee’s timely contribution to the fields of diaspora studies, religious studies, and transnational Canadian studies opens up conversations about the intersections of race, religion, and diaspora. The work allows for a new framing of diaspora as a shifting and expansive category to open up new possibilities of understanding racialized communities across Canada.” University of Toronto Quarterly

"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