Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-cultural Perspective: v. 21 (Dress, Body, Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859734758 ISBN 13: 9781859734759

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

Undressing Religion 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 range of cultures, from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. Full description

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'A stimulating collection.' -- International Review of Biblical Studies

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1859734758
• ISBN 13: 9781859734759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Arthur Linda B.