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Undressing Religion - Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, First)
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Undressing Religion - Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, First)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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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.
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