{"product_id":"inside-the-expressive-culture-of-maria-jaschok-9781032618517","title":"Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques: 'This Turmoil of the Soul'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim women's mosques in central China. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy drawing on a 'Song Book' of chants, collected from the tradition of women's mosques, as context it reveals just how the increasing prominence of female voices has given rise to considerable misgivings among senior religious leaders over the potential destabilization of orthodox Islamic gendered practices. Providing a historical introduction to the place and function of Islamic chants, \u003cem\u003e jingge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ezansheng\u003c\/em\u003e, the book gives a conceptual framing of female silence, sound, and agency in local translations of Confucian and Islamic precepts, and women's personal accounts of the role played by traditional and modern soundscapes in transmitting and celebrating Islamic knowledge and faith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a study of women's soundscapes and the significance of legitimacy, ambiguities, and implications of female sound, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Chinese society and culture, gender studies, cultural anthropology, and Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Jaschok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032618515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032618517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Maria Jaschok","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46431514984703,"sku":"9781032618517","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c55b3797-df1b-4b5b-8bbc-eeb96a9d983d.jpg?v=1735141567","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inside-the-expressive-culture-of-maria-jaschok-9781032618517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}