RT Article
T1 Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism
JF Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
VO 2
IS 4
SP 1
OP 82
A1 Mohan, Urmila
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1756006229
AB In Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism, Urmila Mohan explores the materiality and visuality of cloth and clothing as devotional media in contemporary Hinduism. Drawing upon ethnographic research into the global missionizing group “International Society for Krishna Consciousness” (ISKCON), she studies translocal spaces of worship, service, education, and daily life in the group’s headquarters in Mayapur and other parts of India. Focusing on the actions and values of deity dressmaking, devotee clothing and paraphernalia, Mohan shows how activities, such as embroidery and chanting, can be understood as techniques of spirituality, reverence, allegiance—and she proposes the new term “efficacious intimacy” to help understand these complex processes. The monograph brings theoretical advances in Anglo-European material culture and material religion studies into a conversation with South Asian anthropology, sociology, art history, and religion. Ultimately, it demonstrates how embodied interactions as well as representations shape ISKCON’s practitioners as devout subjects, while connecting them with the divine and the wider community.
K1 Hinduism
K1 ISKCON
K1 India
K1 Agency
K1 cloth
K1 Clothing
K1 Devotion
K1 efficacious intimacy
K1 Material Culture
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Practice
K1 translocal
DO 10.1163/24688878-12340006