The centrality of the female body in Brazilian culture: Evangelical and Muslim responses
This article aims to analyse how both Evangelical and Islamic religions deal with a central aspect of the construction of the Brazilian national identity: the body. The Brazilian religious field is exposed to this cultural value and reacts to it in different ways. While Islam preaches female modesty...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-290 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brazil
/ Cultural identity
/ Evangelical movement
/ Woman
/ Body
/ Islam
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBR Latin America KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Islam B Brazil B Religion B Evangelicals B the body |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This article aims to analyse how both Evangelical and Islamic religions deal with a central aspect of the construction of the Brazilian national identity: the body. The Brazilian religious field is exposed to this cultural value and reacts to it in different ways. While Islam preaches female modesty, involving the 'concealment' of the body and its forms, Evangelicals reinforce part of the Brazilian culture of appreciation and care for physical attributes, albeit using the rhetoric of doing so with moderation and modesty. The data presented here were collected through interviews with religious leaders and through participant observation in the Baptist Church of Lagoinha, in Belo Horizonte, and the Islamic Youth League, in São Paulo, Brazil. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2019.1621546 |