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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
346-365
عنوان
Social Sciences and Missions
شماره جلد
30/3-4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1874-8945
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Christian mission
اصطلاح موضوعی
clothing
اصطلاح موضوعی
Guyana
اصطلاح موضوعی
Guyane
اصطلاح موضوعی
Hindouisme
اصطلاح موضوعی
Hinduism
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
migrations transnationales
اصطلاح موضوعی
missions chrétiennes
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
transnational migration
اصطلاح موضوعی
vêtements
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