03705nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001600169072002300185072001500208100008500223245012900308250001800437264007900455300005300534336002600587337002600613338003600639347002400675505080100699520125201500650001402752650001502766650001302781650002802794650000902822650001402831650002102845650001402866650002402880650002702904650002002931650003402951710003402985773002603019776003603045776003603081776003603117856004603153978-3-031-68509-5DE-He21320251030113131.0cr nn 008mamaa241007s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316850957 a10.1007/978-3-031-68509-52doi 4aBL1100-1295 7aHRG2bicssc 7aREL0320002bisacsh 7aQRD2thema1 aAndrews, Ashlee Norene.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aValuing Hindu Women’s Domestic Shrine Traditions as Reproductive Laborh[electronic resource] /cby Ashlee Norene Andrews.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXV, 232 p. 12 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aIntroduction -- 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.  aHistorically 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. 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. 0aHinduism. 0aReligions. 0aAmerica. 0aReligion and sociology. 0aSex. 0aFeminism. 0aFeminist theory.14aHinduism.24aAmerican Religions.24aSociology of Religion.24aGender Studies.24aFeminism and Feminist Theory.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303168508808iPrinted edition:z978303168510108iPrinted edition:z978303168511840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68509-5