In this Book
- Clothing
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- Series: Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living
summary
Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing we are limited and mortal. This book explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties about our finitude. Through our clothing, we often shield ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others detect our emotional, physical, and spiritual vulnerabilities. Looking at the incarnation as a form of "dress," Saracino claims that getting naked with Jesus or embracing our vulnerability is our only hope at creating life-giving relationships with God and others in the global world.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Series Foreword
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- 3. Redeeming Fashion
- pp. 83-116
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- pp. 121-122
- Reader's Guide
- pp. 123-124
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451424416
MARC Record
OCLC
824698875
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No