Undressing religion : Commitment and conversion from a cross-cultural perspective

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Arthur, Linda

Publisher

Oxford: Berg, 2000

Language

English

ISBN

9781847888938

Series

Subject(s)

• CLOTHING AND DRESS--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS
• COSTUME--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS

Notes

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Abstract

From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. In some of these cultures, dress is part of a system of social control. Gender issues feature prominently since the control of female sexuality is often of great importance to the world's religions. Members of each ethno-religious group actively construct their own lives, and use dress symbolically. A central tenet for many of these groups is that the soul is visually manifested on the body through dress. Drawing on rich ethnographic case studies, this wide-ranging and interdisciplinary volume represents a major contribution to the study of both religion and dress.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 216 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Cloth and conversion: Yoruba textiles and ecclesiastical dress / Elisha P. Renne --
"Minkisi" do not die; BaKongo cosmology in the Christian rituals of Simon Kimbangu and Simon Mpadi / Shannen Hill --
Dressing the divine horsemen: Clothing as spirit identification in Haitian Vodou / Susan Tselos --
Christianity, cloth, and dress in the Andes / Lynn A. Meisch --
Clothed with authority: the rationalization of Marist dress-culture / William J.F. Keenan --
Confucianism manifested in Korean dress from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Inwoo Chang and Haekyung L. Yu --
Islamic religion and women's dress code: the Islamic republic of Iran / Faegheh Shirazi --
The Afghan woman's Chaadaree: an evocative religious expression? / M. Catherine Daly --
Sartorial entanglements of a Gujarati wife / M. Catherine Daly --
Veiling and unveiling: reconstructing Malay female identity in Singapore / Joseph Stimpfl --
Continuation and change in Tenganan Pegeringsingan, Bali / L. Kaye Crippen and Patricia M. Mulready --
School uniforms as a symbolic metaphor for competing ideologies in Indonesia / Linda B. Arthur.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01554/21	391.0088 Und	Online !	Available