Contesting ‘Gifts from Jesus’

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" Contesting ‘Gifts from Jesus’ "
Sinah Theres Kloß

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083517
Doc. No	:	LA127146
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sinah Theres Kloß
Title & Author	:	Contesting ‘Gifts from Jesus’ [Article]\ Sinah Theres Kloß
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	30/3-4
Page No	:	346–365
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Christian mission
Descriptor	:	clothing
Descriptor	:	Guyana
Descriptor	:	Guyane
Descriptor	:	Hindouisme
Descriptor	:	Hinduism
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	migrations transnationales
Descriptor	:	missions chrétiennes
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	transnational migration
Descriptor	:	vêtements
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003003‬