عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA127146
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Contesting 'Gifts from Jesus'
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sinah Theres Kloß
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Clothes are a means to demonstrate wealth, status, and socio-religious hegemony. Practices of consuming and exchanging clothing enhance or lower one's status by displaying and creating taste and capital. In Guyana, many Hindus relate charitable clothing distributions exclusively to Christian missions. They commonly state that the distribution of used clothing is a means to convert Hindus to Christianity. While indeed in the past only Christians were able to conduct such distributions due to their links to colonial powers, today and as a result of transnational migration to North America Guyanese Hindus also organize distributions of clothing. For this purpose, migrants collect used clothes and ship them to Guyana. This article proposes that as Hindus remain a minority in Guyana, the practice of and discourse about charitable distributions are a means to counter and resist the perceived 'threat' of conversion. It demonstrates how charitable distributions thereby influence the local socio-religious hierarchy and challenge established power structures.
SET
Date of Publication
2017
Physical description
346-365
Title
Social Sciences and Missions
Volume Number
30/3-4
International Standard Serial Number
1874-8945
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Christian mission
Subject Term
clothing
Subject Term
Guyana
Subject Term
Guyane
Subject Term
Hindouisme
Subject Term
Hinduism
Subject Term
History of Religion
Subject Term
migrations transnationales
Subject Term
missions chrétiennes
Subject Term
Religion & Society
Subject Term
Religious Studies
Subject Term
Social Sciences
Subject Term
transnational migration
Subject Term
vêtements
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sinah Theres Kloß
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18748945-03003003
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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