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Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Arthur, Linda Boynton

Paperback

Series: Dress, Body, Culture

Comparative ReligionAnthropology

ISBN10: 1859734804
ISBN13: 9781859734803
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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