A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania
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Cloth and Christianity have long been seen as intimate partners in Oceania. The introduction of manufactured cloth�cambric,2 calico, chintz, linen, serge and silk�from the mills of Manchester and New England and the workshops of China, the cultivation of the arts of sewing, quilting and embroidery and the adoption of Western-style clothing: modest dresses for women, demure trousers or laplaps for men, have all become iconic of Oceanic Christianity. Integral to the �before and after� story of...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Press (1965-Present) |
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Date published: | 2014 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60198 |
Source: | Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific |
Book Title: | Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific |
DOI: | 10.22459/DD.10.2014.16 |
Access Rights: | Open Access via publisher website |
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