The Religious Life Of Dress Global Fashion And Faith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780857853615
Description: "The book's global perspective provides wide-ranging, yet detailed, coverage of religious dress, from the history and meaning of the simple 'no-frills' attire of the Anabaptists to the power structure displayed in the elaborate fabrics and colours of the Roman Catholic Church; Hume examines the 2,500 year-old tradition of Buddhist robes, the nudity of India's holy men, and much more. With chapters on Sufism, Vodou, modern Pagans, as well as painted and tattooed indigenous and modern Western bodies, the reader is swept along on a sensual journey of the sight, sound, smell and feel of wearing religion."--Publisher's description.