Clothing: Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living - Softcover

David H. Jensen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800699068 ISBN 13: 9780800699062

Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press, 2012

Synopsis

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing we are limited and mortal. This book explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties about our finitude. Through our clothing, we often shield ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others detect our emotional, physical, and spiritual vulnerabilities. Looking at the incarnation as a form of dress, Saracino claims that getting naked with Jesus or embracing our vulnerability is our only hope at creating life-giving relationships with God and others in the global world.

About this title

About the Author:

Michele Saracino is associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. She holds a PhD from Marquette University. She is an active member of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the College Theology Society (CTS), the Constructive Theology Workgroup, and the New Voices Seminar.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0800699068
• ISBN 13: 9780800699062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128