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New Developments in Christianity in China
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ISBN: 3039287257 3039287249 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The phenomenal expansion of Christianity in China in recent years has attracted much scholarly and public attention. As the country continues to deepen its linkages with the rest of the world, Chinese Christian networks are spreading both within and outside the country. These networks link and crisscross at multiple scales and localities in China while strengthening interactions with overseas Chinese Christians and global Christianity. Many Christian groups throughout the country are harnessing the tremendous potential of new media, such as the internet and mobile apps, to share religious messages, participate in rituals, access information, create online communities, and to evangelize. Chinese Christians have also begun exerting their influence outside China through activities such proselytism, charity work, and development projects. This volume presents cutting edge research by scholars working in the field of Christianity in China, providing valuable insights into how Chinese Christianity is evolving and how it is shaping the country and beyond.


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Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.


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Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions
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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.


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Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.

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Religion & beliefs --- Sikh --- western women --- status of women --- India --- colonial --- diaspora --- missionaries --- travelogue --- suttee --- infanticide --- friendship --- gender, religion and sexuality --- Sikh literature and gender representations --- Sikh diaspora and gender --- lived religions and Sikhism --- postcolonial life narratives and gender --- trauma, testimonies and bearing witness --- Sikhism --- gender --- gender construction --- Dasam Granth --- Sikhs --- Siri Guru Granth --- Rahit Maryada --- punj kakar --- gurdwara --- feminist thought --- Sikh religion --- masculinity --- gender roles --- women's education --- women and Sikhism --- Sikh women in Italy --- seva performances --- Sikh youth --- Sikhs in Italy --- gurdwaras in Italy --- caste --- intersectionality --- householding --- counterpublic --- embodiment --- ethnography --- prayer --- violence --- widowhood --- Sikh women and gender --- Sikh diaspora --- Canadian Sikhs --- Sikh millennials --- Sikh chic --- Sikh entrepreneur --- Sikh values --- Khalsa --- Sikh fashion --- Sikhs in Barcelona --- identity (re)construction --- gender relations --- agency --- hypermasculinity --- misogyny --- sexism --- good girl --- bad girl --- bhangra --- rap --- Hard Kaur --- masculinities --- gangs --- British Columbia --- moral panics --- Punjabis --- Khalistanis --- Sikhs in France --- undocumented migration --- construction sector --- fitness --- philanthropy --- Sikh --- western women --- status of women --- India --- colonial --- diaspora --- missionaries --- travelogue --- suttee --- infanticide --- friendship --- gender, religion and sexuality --- Sikh literature and gender representations --- Sikh diaspora and gender --- lived religions and Sikhism --- postcolonial life narratives and gender --- trauma, testimonies and bearing witness --- Sikhism --- gender --- gender construction --- Dasam Granth --- Sikhs --- Siri Guru Granth --- Rahit Maryada --- punj kakar --- gurdwara --- feminist thought --- Sikh religion --- masculinity --- gender roles --- women's education --- women and Sikhism --- Sikh women in Italy --- seva performances --- Sikh youth --- Sikhs in Italy --- gurdwaras in Italy --- caste --- intersectionality --- householding --- counterpublic --- embodiment --- ethnography --- prayer --- violence --- widowhood --- Sikh women and gender --- Sikh diaspora --- Canadian Sikhs --- Sikh millennials --- Sikh chic --- Sikh entrepreneur --- Sikh values --- Khalsa --- Sikh fashion --- Sikhs in Barcelona --- identity (re)construction --- gender relations --- agency --- hypermasculinity --- misogyny --- sexism --- good girl --- bad girl --- bhangra --- rap --- Hard Kaur --- masculinities --- gangs --- British Columbia --- moral panics --- Punjabis --- Khalistanis --- Sikhs in France --- undocumented migration --- construction sector --- fitness --- philanthropy


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Distributed blackness
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ISBN: 1479811904 1479820377 9781479811908 9781479820375 9781479829965 147982996X Year: 2020 Publisher: New York

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From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, 'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andre Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. 'Distributed Blackness' analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how "blackness" gets worked out in various technological domains. 0As Brock demonstrates, there's nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.

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African Americans --- African Americans and mass media. --- Online social networks --- Internet --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Virtual communities --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Afro-Americans and mass media --- Mass media and African Americans --- Mass media --- Communication. --- Intellectual life --- Social aspects --- Black Twitter. --- Black culture. --- Black cyberculture. --- Black digital practice. --- Black discursive identity. --- Black identity. --- Black kairos. --- Black memetic subculture. --- Black online identity. --- Black pathos. --- Black respectability politics. --- Black technocultural matrix. --- Man Crush Monday. --- Western technoculture. --- Woman Crush Wednesday. --- appropriate technology use. --- black technoculture. --- call-out culture. --- colored people time. --- critical discourse analysis. --- critical race theory. --- critical technocultural discourse analysis. --- ctda. --- digital practice. --- discourse analysis. --- dogmatic digital practice. --- double consciousness. --- information studies. --- interiority. --- internet studies. --- intersectionality. --- invention. --- libidinal economy. --- memes. --- mobile phones. --- modernity. --- networked counterpublics. --- online community. --- online identity. --- post-present. --- race and the digital. --- racial battle fatigue. --- racial enactment. --- racial formation. --- ratchet digital practice. --- reflexive digital practice. --- respectability as hygiene. --- rhetorical frame. --- satellite counterpublic. --- science and technology studies. --- social network. --- sociality. --- technoculture. --- weak tie racism. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics.

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