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BL
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881418
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| Main Entry
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Saracino, Michele,1971-
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| Title & Author
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Clothing /\ Michele Saracino.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis, MN :: Fortress Press,, ©2012.
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| Series Statement
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Compass, Christian explorations of daily living
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 124 pages).
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| ISBN
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1451424418
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: 9781451424416
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0800699068
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9780800699062
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122).
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| Contents
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Clothing as spiritual -- Playing the devil's advocate -- What's in a name? -- Overview of the book -- Vulnerability as a fact of life -- What to wear? -- Good stress -- Bad stress -- Who am I to judge -- Perfectionism: the eigth deadly sin? -- The trouble with hand me downs -- Out sourcing sin -- The road not taken -- Spiritual resources for embracing vulnerability -- Getting naked with Jesus -- Making vulnerability fashionable.
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| Abstract
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Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing we are limited and mortal. This book explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties about our finitude. Through our clothing, we often shield ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others detect our emotional, physical, and spiritual vulnerabilities. Looking at the incarnation as a form of "dress," Saracino claims that getting naked with Jesus or embracing our vulnerability is our only hope at creating life-g.
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Clothing and dress-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Clothing and dress-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Clothing and dress-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Clothing and dress-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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RELIGION-- Christian Theology-- Ethics.
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| Dewey Classification
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241/.674
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| LC Classification
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BJ1697.S27 2012eb
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