Silhouettes of the Soul

Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity

Otto Von Busch, Jeanine Viau

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350285675
• eBook ISBN: 9781350179929
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

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.

Index

1. 9/11 attacks here
2. Abdullah, Zain here
3. Acaranga Sutra here
4. acela (“unclothed”) here
5. Adam and Eve here–here
6. Aden, Halima here
7. Adriel, Jean here
8. aesthetics here, here
9. aesthetic state here
10. affective response here
11. Affect Theory, Shame and Christian Formation (Arel) here
12. Afrocentrism here
13. Afro-diasporic communities here
14. Ahmad, Muhammad here
15. Ahmed, Leila here
16. Ahmed, Sara here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
17. Ahmed, Shahab here, here
18. Ali, Muhammad here, here
19. Ali, Noble Drew here–here
20. Ali ibn Abu Talib here
21. Allah here, here, here
22. Allure here
23. American Academy of Religion here, here
24. American Eagle here
25. American Islam here
26. Amida Sutra here
27. anaesthetic here, here, here
28. anatomical bodies here
29. ancient India here–here, here
30. Anderson, Benedict here
31. anorexia here, here
32. Ansar. See Mahdiyya
33. Ansaru Allah Community (AAC) here, here–here
34. anthropology here
35. anthropotechnics here, here, here
36. anti-aesthetics here, here
37. apostle Paul here, here, here
38. Aquinas, Thomas here
39. al-Arabi, Ibn here
40. Arab women here
41. Arbery, Ahmaud here
42. Arel, Stephanie her...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction Otto von Busch and Jeanine Viau
• Section One Interfacing the Divine Otto von Busch and Jeanine Viau
• Section Two Practices of Emulation and Transformation Otto von Busch and Jeanine Viau
• Section Three The Radiance of the Concealed Otto von Busch and Jeanine Viau
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Copyright