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

Table of contents

• Undressing Religion *
• Dress, Body, Culture *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgements vii
• Notes an Contributors viii
• List of Illustrations xiii
• Introduction 1
• References 5
• 1 - Cloth and Converson: Yoruba Textiles and Ecclesiastical Dress 7
• Notes *
• References *
• 2 - Mnkisi Do Not Die: Bakongo Cosmology in the Christian Rituals of Simon Kimbangu and Simon Mpadi 25
• Notes *
• References 42
• 3 - Dressing the Divine Horsemen: Dress as Spirit Identification in Haitian Vodou 45
• Notes 62
• References *
• 4 - Christianity, Cloth and Dress in the Andes 65
• Notes *
• References *
• 5 - Clothed with Authority: the Rationalization of Marist Dress-Culture 83
• References *
• 6 - Confucianism Manifested in Korean Dress from the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 101
• References *
• 7 - Islamic Religion and Women's Dress Code: the Islamic Republic of Iran 113
• Notes *
• References 130
• 8 - The Afghan Woman's “chaadaree”:Anevocative Religious Expression? 131
• Notes *
• References *
• 9 - Sartorial Entanglements of a Gujarati Wife 147
• Notes 167
• References *
• 10 - Veiling and Unveiling: Reconstructing Malay Female Identity in Singapore 169
• References *
• 11 - Continuation and Change in Tenganan Pegeringsingan, Bali 183
• Notes *
• References *
• 12 - School Uniforms as a Symbolic Metaphor for Competing Ideologies in Indonesia 201
• Notes *
• References 215
• Index 217

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