Silhouettes of the Soul

Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity
Herausgeber: Busch, Otto Von; Wilson, Elizabeth; Viau, Jeanine; Lewis, Reina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the relationship between the soul, or inner life, and what we wear in the making of identity and belief? What bearing do religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance have on the way in which we dress? Why have more traditional religious practices been so prescriptive about body adornment? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites. Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other. By moving beyond traditional, social scientific, and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment the book presents a variety of disciplinary approaches from across regional, social, and religious locations. Contentious and challenging, as well as academically rigorous, the book's diverse range of contributors - from fashion and religious studies scholars, to designers, activists, monastics, and journalists - explore the relationship between religion and fashion, extending the meanings and possibilities of both dress and spirituality. Combining interviews and personal stories with more traditional theoretical analysis, Silhouettes of the Soul offers new ways of looking at the relationship between religion, personal convictions, and self-expression - our sense of self and our sense of fashion.

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Produktdetails

• Dress Cultures
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781350179905
• ISBN-10: 1350179906
• Artikelnr.: 62478976

Autorenporträt

Otto von Busch is Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA. He is the author of The Psychopolitics of Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2019). Jeanine Viau is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Otto von Busch
(Parsons School of Design, USA) and Jeanine Viau (University of Central
Florida, USA) Section One: Interfacing the Divine Section One Introduction
by Otto von Busch (Parsons School of Design, USA) and Jeanine Viau
(University of Central Florida, USA) 1. The Future Body as Ultimate Dress
Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA) 2. No One Can Tell: On
the Silent Glamour of Meher Baba Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College,
CUNY, USA) 3. Embodiments of Shakti: Cosmic Power Displayed by Kumaris,
Incarnate Goddesses of Nepal Liz Wilson (Miami University of Ohio, USA) 4.
Interview with Kodo Nishimura Otto von Busch (Parsons School of Design,
USA) and Mark Larrimore (The New School, USA) Section Two: Practices of
Emulation and Transformation Section Two Introduction by Otto von Busch
(Parsons School of Design, USA) and Jeanine Viau (University of Central
Florida, USA) 5. Naked or Nude? Reading the Threads, the Bare and the
Threadbare in Ancient Indian Religion Joseph Walser (Tufts University, USA)
6. Empowered Entrepreneurs: Women of Muslim Faith and the Modest Fashion
Movement in the U.S. Hassanah El-Yacoubi (University of California
Riverside, USA) 7. Fashioning the Subject: Black Queerness, Identity, and
an Ethic of Honor Benae Beamon (Bucknell University, USA) 8. From the
Medieval Christ to Fashion's Heroin Chic: The Sublime Emulation of the
Emaciated Paradigm in Secular and Religious Iconography Tanya White
(Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 9. In and Out of One Another's
Closets: A Dialogue Jeanine Viau (University of Central Florida, USA) with
Shekinah Morrison (University of Central Florida, USA) Section Three: The
Radiance of the Concealed Section Three Introduction by Otto von Busch
(Parsons School of Design, USA) and Jeanine Viau (University of Central
Florida, USA) 10. Making Islamic Masculinities: Clothing Traditions in
African American Islam Michael Muhammad Knight (University of Central
Florida, USA) 11. Holly Woodlawn, Trash Queen: Queer Agency and Resistance
in the Pursuit of Glamour Jared Vázquez (University of Denver, USA) 12.
Fashioning A Glamour: Magical Embodiment in Contemporary Witchcraft Kristen
J. Sollée (The New School, USA) 13. Interview with Damcho Otto von Busch
(Parsons School of Design, USA) Index