Valuing Hindu Women's Domestic Shrine Traditions as Reproductive Labor

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-68508-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Historically in middle-class Bengali Hindu households it has been the matriarch’s responsibility to arrange and maintain the domestic shrine and to perform daily rituals of deity worship and caretaking—termed in this book as domestic shrine traditions. These traditions are often assimilated with the other domestic caretaking labor women are expected to complete for their families.

Utilizing a years-long ethnography with Bengali American Hindu women, and drawing from Marxist feminist Social Reproduction Theory, this book argues that domestic shrine traditions are reproductive labor that is essential to the transnational and transgenerational sustenance of Hindu traditions and subjectivities. As the first monograph focused on Hindu women’s domestic shrine traditions in the United States, this book illuminates both the value of these traditions for the women who maintain them, and how these traditions connect immigrant Hindus to family and ethno-religious identity in ways unmatched by the public Hindu temple or organization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, Ashlee Norene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Chapter 1.“I Just Do What Feels Right”: Valuing Domestic Shrine Traditions as Affective Labor and Women as Devotional Authorities.- Chapter 2. “It’s A Connection”: Valuing Domestic Shrine Traditions as Relational Labor And Sustaining Ethno-Religious Subjectivities and Traditions in the U.S..-Chapter 3. "It’s All About Me Because My Children Are the People That I Care For": Valuing Domestic Shrine Traditions as Maternal Labor and Rethinking Maternal Sacrifice.- Chapter 4. “I Don’t Need To Sit In Front of Any Kind of Deity”: Rejecting Domestic Shrine Traditions as a Chore and Negotiating Domestic Labor.- Chapter 5. “You Take the Best of Both Worlds”: Valuing Domestic Shrine Traditions as Homemaking Labor and Remaking Hindu Womanhood.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ashlee Norene Andrews is Assistant Professor of Religion at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she primarily teaches courses on Hindu traditions, theories of religion and gender in religion.