Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments Gilhus Ingvild Slid
Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments Gilhus Ingvild Slid This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life,…
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Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments Gilhus Ingvild Slid
This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life, as expressed through clothes. In this way, they can play a significant role in the embodied and material aspects of religious practice.The focus of this book is on clothing and garments among ancient monastics and ascetics in Egypt, but with a broader outlook to the general meaning and function of clothes in religion. Clothes are often seen as an extension of us as humans, a determinant of who we are and how we experience and interact with the world.
This study combines a cognitive perspective on clothes with an attempt to grasp the embodied experiences of being clothed, as well as viewing clothes as The garments of the Egyptian ascetics and monastics are important because they belong to a period of transition in the history of Christianity and very much represent this way of living.