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BODY AND CLOTHING


The body can be understood as fundamental to human communication. Clothing provides a means of both building and representing the body. At the social level, clothing can help define an individual's belonging to, or non-membership of, a certain group, creating a multifaceted interplay of identities. Participants in religious traditions might depend on clothing as a medium, as a means, for instance, to communicate the identity of a religious leader, but non-participants, too, have appropriated religion for their bodies, as we see when the fashion industry and other systems of dress adopt and adapt religious symbolism.

 

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