TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narayan, Anjana,
AU  - Purkayastha, Bandana,
TI  - Living our religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American women narrate their experiences 
SN  - 9781565492707 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 305.40954 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Sterling, VA
PB  - Kumarian Press
KW  - South Asian American women
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Hindu women
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Muslim women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and index; Introduction / Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha -- Transgressing the sacred-secular, private-public divide / Bandana Purkayastha -- The interconnecting humanity : connections between our spiritual and secular world / Selina Jamil -- Islam through a mosaic of cultures / Parveen Talpur -- At the crossroads of religions : the experiences of a Newar woman in Nepal and the United States / Bidya Ranjeet -- Color of God : resplendent clay of Hindu images as the glow of the ineffable / Neela Bhattacharya Saxena -- I am Muslim first / Salma Kamal -- Red, bulls, and tea : cultural hashing of a 1.5er (a.k.a. second-generation reflections) / Monoswita Saha -- Interpretive intervention : religion, gender, and boundaries / Bandana Purkayastha -- Many facets of Hinduism / Anjana Narayan -- Living Hinduism and striving to achieve internal and external harmony / Shanthi Rao -- Mapping the memories of a Nepali woman in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung -- Bengali, Bangladesh yet Muslim / Elora Halim Chowdhury -- Religion as inspiration, religion as action / Aysha Saeed -- Muslim women b
ER  -