RT Article
T1 Women, Tattoos, and Religion an Exploration into Women’s Inner Life
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 7
A1 Morello, Gustavo 1966-
A1 Engelmann, Jack
A1 Evangel, Alexis
A1 Moreno, Diego
A1 Sanchez, Mikayla
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1764664736
AB In this article, we study women’s tattoos from a lived religion perspective. We describe how women’s tattoos express their inner lives, the religious dynamics associated with tattooing, and how they negotiate them with others. The sample used came from surveys and interviews targeting tattooed women at a confessional college on the East Coast of the United States. Women appropriate a prevalent cultural practice like body art to express their religious and spiritual experiences and ideas. It can be a Catholic motto, a Hindu or Buddhist sign, or a reformulated goddess, but the point is that women use tattoos to express their inner lives. We found that women perceive workplace culture as a hostile space for them to express their inner lives through tattoos, while they are comfortable negotiating their tattoos with their religious traditions. And they do so in a Catholic university.
K1 Career
K1 Economy
K1 job market
K1 Lived Religion
K1 Secularization
K1 Spirituality
K1 tattoos
K1 Women
DO 10.3390/rel12070517