Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America
This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
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Clothing and dress (North America)
Religious aspects
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| Summary: | This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America -- Part I. Theological Adornment -- 1. Seventh-day Adventist Dress: "An Index to the Heart" -- 2. Clothing Spiritual Reality: The Sartorial Styles of Mary Baker Eddy -- 3. Faith, Fashion, and Film in the Jazz Age: Catholic Vestments Encounter the Roaring 1920s -- 4. Power Before Thrones of God and Man: Women, Adornment, and Public Life in White American Pentecostalism -- Part II. Identity Adornment -- 5. Holy Dashikis! Black Sartorial Nationalism and Black Israelite Religion -- 6. Refined Bodies: Clothing as a Visual Signifier of Piety for Mormon Women in America -- 7. The Christian Tattoo: Much More than Skin-Deep -- 8. "Queens of the Earth": The MGT Uniform as a Form of Identity Creation and Nation Building -- Part III. Negotiated Adornment -- 9. "Ye Shall be Naked in Your Rites": Ritual Attire and Ritual Nudity (Skyclad) in North American Wicca -- 10. Amish Vogue: Performing Fashion in the Plain World -- 11. "Your Religion is Showing": Negotiation and Personal Experience in Mormon Garments -- Part IV. Activist Adornment -- 12. Dressed for Glory: White Uniforms in African American Church Traditions as Visual Political Theology -- 13. "The Hare Krishna Look": ISKCON Adornment as Religious Activism -- 14. Religious Dress, the Church of Body Modification, and the First Amendment -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Reading List -- List of Contributors -- Index. "Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America collects original scholarly essays on the overlooked and underexamined subject of religious dress. Employing four thematic lenses, authors explore ways that religious attire has been a site of identity formation, social negotiation, theological interpretation, and/or political activism for faith communities. The volume as a whole mirrors the religious diversity that exists in the United States. In keeping with the turn toward practices and material cultures in the field of religious studies, the anthology highlights the manners in which adornment serves a central role in the lives of religious individuals and communities. The essays, which investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, consider adornment practices of Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Muslims, Jews, and new religious movements as well as individuals who straddle religious boundaries. They explore connections between dress and meaning-making within religion, including aspects of self-perception, communication, and everyday action"-- |
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| ISBN: | 0231555547 |