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Fashion Theology (Hardcover)
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Fashion Theology (Hardcover)
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What is fashion? Where does it come from? Why has it come to
permeate modern life? In the last half century, questions like
these have drawn serious academic reflection, resulting in a new
field of research - fashion studies - and generating a rich
multidisciplinary discussion. Yet theology's voice has been
conspicuously absent in this conversation. The time has finally
come for theology to break her silence and join this decades-long
conversation. Fashion Theology is the first of its kind: a serious
and long-overdue account of the dynamic relationship between
theology and fashion. Chronicling the epic journey from ancient
Christian sources to current developments in fashion studies,
cultural theologian Robert Covolo navigates the rich history of
Christian thought as well as recent political, social, aesthetic,
literary, and performance theory. Far from mere disparity or quick
resolution, Covolo demonstrates that fashion and theology inhabit a
mutual terrain that has, until recently, scarcely been imagined.
Covolo retraces the way theologians have taken up fashion across
history, unveiling how Christian thinkers have been fascinated with
fashion well before the academy's current focus, and bringing these
insights into the conversation with fashion itself: the logic by
which fashion operates, how fashion shapes our world, and the way
fashion imperceptibly molds our personal lives. Within fashion's
realms reside some of life's greatest challenges: the foundations
of political power, the basis for social order, the nature of
aesthetics, how we inhabit time, and the means by which we tell
stories about our lives - challenges, it turns out, that
theologians also explore. Fashion favors the bold; theology demands
humility. Holding the two together, Fashion Theology trailblazes an
interdisciplinary path informed by a thoughtful engagement with the
Christian witness. For those traversing this spectacle of
unexpected crossroads and hotly contested terrain, the promise of
fashion theology awaits with its myriad unexplored vistas.
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