Clothes That Make the Man

Understanding How the Extended Self Is Formed, Expressed and Negotiated by Male Tablighi Jamaat Adherents

Bibliographic Data

ID4313956
AuthorsA A Rauf (0000-0002-9730-2296, Information Technology University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue10
Pages981
Publication date2022-10-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13100981
OpenAlexW4306769747
LanguageEN
References cited65

Deviating from the predominantly women-focused investigations on Islamic clothing in anthropology, religion and consumer studies, this research places men's Islamic clothing under the spotlight to understand how the notion of the extended self is evidenced in a religious context. Using a multi-sited ethnographic and in-depth interview approach to study the context of middle-class Pakistani male participants of the traditional revivalist movement the Tablighi Jamaat, this study finds that possessions such as clothing serve as a conduit to participants' sense of extended self. In this case, the extended self is associated with the Muslim nation, its Prophet and his work. This investigation furthers the concept of the extended self by implicating the consumption of religiously identified clothing as an entity that becomes associated with the self. Moreover, this study concludes that possessions and the extended self are imbricated into one's religious career path

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Clothing · Ethnography · Islam · Self · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Halal products and consumer behavior · History · Psychology · Social Psychology

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