04105nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-68509-5 DE-He213 20251030113131.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241007s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031685095 978-3-031-68509-5 10.1007/978-3-031-68509-5 doi BL1100-1295 HRG bicssc REL032000 bisacsh QRD thema Andrews, Ashlee Norene. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85724 Valuing Hindu Women’s Domestic Shrine Traditions as Reproductive Labor [electronic resource] / by Ashlee Norene Andrews. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 232 p. 12 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. 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. 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. Hinduism. 23873 Religions. 70064 America. 72288 Religion and sociology. 68604 Sex. 66477 Feminism. 1785 Feminist theory. 61151 Hinduism. 23873 American Religions. 72291 Sociology of Religion. 68606 Gender Studies. 66478 Feminism and Feminist Theory. 67739 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031685088 Printed edition: 9783031685101 Printed edition: 9783031685118 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68509-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 64050 64050