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Books by Rubina Ramji
Bloomsbury Press, 2022
Rubina Ramji (first author), Alison Marshall (second author) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religi... more Rubina Ramji (first author), Alison Marshall (second author)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation throughout.
Many chapters are grounded in embodied ethnography including participant observation fieldwork, interviews, oral history collections and qualitative analysis, drawing on sociological and anthropological theory, as well as non-western and historical approaches to religion. Chapters also chronicle migration in regional, transnational, multicultural and populist contexts, examining everyday religiosity and religion across generations. The volume includes chapters on Islam and Muslim identity, Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism, Filipino and Korean religiosity and Polish Catholicism.
List of Figures/Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada) and Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
1. Global Migration, Religious Diversity, and Integration in Regions of the West: Challenging a 'Westphalian' Circumstance, Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa, Canada)
2. Sikh Activism in Diaspora: Migration and Representation, Jasjit Singh (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Shifting Religiosity of Polish Immigrants in Ireland: Between Alienation and Revitalization of Religion, Marcin T. Lisak, (Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, Poland)
4. Polish Diasporic Catholicism in Scotland, Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
5. Korean Christians in the diaspora: Resilience, Migration and Religion, Sabrina Weiss (University of Leipzig, Germany)
6. Social Change and Ethnic Identity in a Korean Congregation, Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
7. Gender Matters: Second-Generation Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims in Canada, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada)
8. Making Space Through Public Engagements: Canadian Ismaili Muslims, Alyshea Cummins (University of Ottawa, Canada)
9. Political Images and the Politics of Images: Orientalism and Moral Frameworks in Constructing Narratives About Muslim and Arab Populations in Brazil, Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
10. Faith-Based Schools in Canadian Immigrant-Origin Communities: from Identity Retention to Social Inclusion, Mariia Alekseevskaia (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Philippe Couton (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11. Research on Migration and Religion in the Latin America Context – A Systematic Approach, Frank Usarski (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)
12. Religion and Im/migration in the Global City, Petra Kuppinger (Monmouth College, USA)
13. Immigration, Religion and Civic Engagement, Zubeyir Nisanci (Marmara University, Turkey)
14. Migrant movements: Filipino Catholic Culture and Religious Heat, Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
15. Religion, Migration and the Chinese in Diaspora, C.B. Tan
16. Transnational Religious Networks and the Revival of Buddhism in Post-Mao China, Brian Nichols (Mount Royal University, Canada)
17. Islam, Internal Migration and Queer Travels in Indonesia Diego Garcia Rodríguez (University College, London, UK)
18. Come from Away but Here To Stay: Religion and Migration in Contemporary Discourse, Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria, Canada)
Conclusion, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada) and Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
Growing up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji A sig... more Growing up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists
Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji
A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families.
Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices.
The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century.
Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)
Peter Beyer is a professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa.
Rubina Ramji is an associate professor of religious studies at Cape Breton University.
Papers by Rubina Ramji
The journal of religion and film, Apr 1, 2016
The journal of religion and film, Apr 1, 2014
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Oct 1, 2020
Sociology of Religion, Mar 1, 2006
Journal of Religion & Film, 2021
This is a review of In the Earth (2021), directed by Ben Wheatley.
Journal of Religion and Film, 2008
Interview with George A. Romero, director of Diary of the Dead (pp. 22-26) Sundance Film Festiva... more Interview with George A. Romero, director of Diary of the Dead (pp. 22-26)
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Monday January 21, 2008
After viewing George A. Romero's
Diary of the Dead I was given the
opportunity to interview the director
himself. I was more than thrilled to know
that he was willing to be interviewed by the
Journal of Religion & Film, as I am a fan of Romero's work and have always found
his social critiques illuminating, amidst the zombies, death and laughs. The reason
I wanted to talk to him was to understand how and why he uses religion, usually in
the Christian and Catholic context, within his films.
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 2013
Journal of Religion and Film, 2016
This thesis investigates the "Muslim woman" as an ideological construct and what it has... more This thesis investigates the "Muslim woman" as an ideological construct and what it has come to mean in both Eastern and Western thought. It examines the discourses within the historical, social and political context of Islamism, Orientalism and Feminism. This thesis explores the foundations and influences of Islamic images constructed by the West. It analyzes contemporary feminist thought in order to offer a survey of Islamic feminist approaches to the Islamic woman. There is a consistent, truncated, stereotypical image of Islam in general, and Muslim women specifically, which are overwhelmingly evidenced in popular films in America. In order to contextualize these images, this thesis offers suggestive evidence that these stereotypes are not just in films, but are perpetuated within Islamist discourse, substantiated by Orientalism and repeated by Feminist discourse. Chapter One provides an overview of current relations between the West and the East to show how the image of Islam has come to be understood today. Although the role of Muslim women is generally ignored, it is important to understand how historical and current events have used religious rhetoric to demonize Islam as a religion, and Muslim men as terrorists and oppressors. Chapter Two investigates how the veil has become the "unifying" symbol: a signifier that distinguishes Islam from the outside. It is unique as a symbol because it constantly tells the West to stay out of Islamic issues. Chapter Three provides an overview of Colonialism as a framework for the historical inclusion of the image of Islamic women and of the veil in Western thought. I demonstrate, by examining contemporary theorists such as Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, how colonial discourse has created a socially constructed colonial subject of the Muslim male and female which is based on "difference." Chapter Four draws on current scholarship in the areas of religion, film and gender to demonstrate the importance of cinematic representations of the constructed Islamic woman and how they [...]
Journal of Religion and Film, 2016
Journal of Religion and Film, Apr 1, 2016
Journal of Religion and Film, 2014
Contemporary Islam, Jul 29, 2008
Journal of Religion and Film, 2019
Journal of Religion and Film, 2005
Sociology of Religion, Sep 1, 2006
Bloomsbury Press, 2022
Rubina Ramji (first author), Alison Marshall (second author) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religi... more Rubina Ramji (first author), Alison Marshall (second author)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation throughout.
Many chapters are grounded in embodied ethnography including participant observation fieldwork, interviews, oral history collections and qualitative analysis, drawing on sociological and anthropological theory, as well as non-western and historical approaches to religion. Chapters also chronicle migration in regional, transnational, multicultural and populist contexts, examining everyday religiosity and religion across generations. The volume includes chapters on Islam and Muslim identity, Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism, Filipino and Korean religiosity and Polish Catholicism.
List of Figures/Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada) and Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
1. Global Migration, Religious Diversity, and Integration in Regions of the West: Challenging a 'Westphalian' Circumstance, Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa, Canada)
2. Sikh Activism in Diaspora: Migration and Representation, Jasjit Singh (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Shifting Religiosity of Polish Immigrants in Ireland: Between Alienation and Revitalization of Religion, Marcin T. Lisak, (Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, Poland)
4. Polish Diasporic Catholicism in Scotland, Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
5. Korean Christians in the diaspora: Resilience, Migration and Religion, Sabrina Weiss (University of Leipzig, Germany)
6. Social Change and Ethnic Identity in a Korean Congregation, Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
7. Gender Matters: Second-Generation Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims in Canada, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada)
8. Making Space Through Public Engagements: Canadian Ismaili Muslims, Alyshea Cummins (University of Ottawa, Canada)
9. Political Images and the Politics of Images: Orientalism and Moral Frameworks in Constructing Narratives About Muslim and Arab Populations in Brazil, Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
10. Faith-Based Schools in Canadian Immigrant-Origin Communities: from Identity Retention to Social Inclusion, Mariia Alekseevskaia (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Philippe Couton (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11. Research on Migration and Religion in the Latin America Context – A Systematic Approach, Frank Usarski (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)
12. Religion and Im/migration in the Global City, Petra Kuppinger (Monmouth College, USA)
13. Immigration, Religion and Civic Engagement, Zubeyir Nisanci (Marmara University, Turkey)
14. Migrant movements: Filipino Catholic Culture and Religious Heat, Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
15. Religion, Migration and the Chinese in Diaspora, C.B. Tan
16. Transnational Religious Networks and the Revival of Buddhism in Post-Mao China, Brian Nichols (Mount Royal University, Canada)
17. Islam, Internal Migration and Queer Travels in Indonesia Diego Garcia Rodríguez (University College, London, UK)
18. Come from Away but Here To Stay: Religion and Migration in Contemporary Discourse, Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria, Canada)
Conclusion, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada) and Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
Growing up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji A sig... more Growing up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists
Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji
A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families.
Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices.
The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century.
Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)
Peter Beyer is a professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa.
Rubina Ramji is an associate professor of religious studies at Cape Breton University.
The journal of religion and film, Apr 1, 2016
The journal of religion and film, Apr 1, 2014
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Oct 1, 2020
Sociology of Religion, Mar 1, 2006
Journal of Religion & Film, 2021
This is a review of In the Earth (2021), directed by Ben Wheatley.
Journal of Religion and Film, 2008
Interview with George A. Romero, director of Diary of the Dead (pp. 22-26) Sundance Film Festiva... more Interview with George A. Romero, director of Diary of the Dead (pp. 22-26)
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Monday January 21, 2008
After viewing George A. Romero's
Diary of the Dead I was given the
opportunity to interview the director
himself. I was more than thrilled to know
that he was willing to be interviewed by the
Journal of Religion & Film, as I am a fan of Romero's work and have always found
his social critiques illuminating, amidst the zombies, death and laughs. The reason
I wanted to talk to him was to understand how and why he uses religion, usually in
the Christian and Catholic context, within his films.
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 2013
Journal of Religion and Film, 2016
This thesis investigates the "Muslim woman" as an ideological construct and what it has... more This thesis investigates the "Muslim woman" as an ideological construct and what it has come to mean in both Eastern and Western thought. It examines the discourses within the historical, social and political context of Islamism, Orientalism and Feminism. This thesis explores the foundations and influences of Islamic images constructed by the West. It analyzes contemporary feminist thought in order to offer a survey of Islamic feminist approaches to the Islamic woman. There is a consistent, truncated, stereotypical image of Islam in general, and Muslim women specifically, which are overwhelmingly evidenced in popular films in America. In order to contextualize these images, this thesis offers suggestive evidence that these stereotypes are not just in films, but are perpetuated within Islamist discourse, substantiated by Orientalism and repeated by Feminist discourse. Chapter One provides an overview of current relations between the West and the East to show how the image of Islam has come to be understood today. Although the role of Muslim women is generally ignored, it is important to understand how historical and current events have used religious rhetoric to demonize Islam as a religion, and Muslim men as terrorists and oppressors. Chapter Two investigates how the veil has become the "unifying" symbol: a signifier that distinguishes Islam from the outside. It is unique as a symbol because it constantly tells the West to stay out of Islamic issues. Chapter Three provides an overview of Colonialism as a framework for the historical inclusion of the image of Islamic women and of the veil in Western thought. I demonstrate, by examining contemporary theorists such as Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, how colonial discourse has created a socially constructed colonial subject of the Muslim male and female which is based on "difference." Chapter Four draws on current scholarship in the areas of religion, film and gender to demonstrate the importance of cinematic representations of the constructed Islamic woman and how they [...]
Journal of Religion and Film, 2016
Journal of Religion and Film, Apr 1, 2016
Journal of Religion and Film, 2014
Contemporary Islam, Jul 29, 2008
Journal of Religion and Film, 2019
Journal of Religion and Film, 2005
Sociology of Religion, Sep 1, 2006
Journal of Religion and Film, 2014
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 2013