Dressing (for) God : clothing as 'efficacious intimacy' in Iskcon

This thesis investigates clothing as subjectivating practices of contemporary Hindu bhakti or devotion, and a means of figuration that shapes the divine, human and social body in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon). Iskcon’s social body is analysed as a territorialising spac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohan, U.
Other Authors: Kuechler, S. ; Pinney, C.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2015
Subjects:
301
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.755976