Religion, attire, and adornment in North America / edited by Marie W. Dallam, Benjamin E. Zeller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dallam, Marie W., editor.

Zeller, Benjamin E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Religious aspects--North America.

Clothing and dress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dallam, Marie W. Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America

ISBN:

0-231-55554-7

OCLC:

1373986252