Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srac020

Kristin Aune, Reina Lewis, Lina Molokotos-Liederman

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article explores how women in religious workplaces respond to organizational norms of and requirements for modest dress and behavior, both implicit and explicit. It compares two case studies: women working for faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the UK, and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia, where the state requirement to dress modesty meant wearing an abaya (slightly relaxed in 2019). Data come from semi-structured interviews with 43 women: 21 who travelled from the UK to Saudi Arabia and 22 who work in UK FBOs. It examines three themes: how women adapt to forms of modest dress, how they navigate dress regulation, and how they negotiate habitus and authenticity. The article proposes that women’s modest dress in workplaces governed by religious codes be understood as a form of lived religious practice and one that raises dilemmas of habitus and authenticity.

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在工作中作为生活宗教的适度着装:沙特阿拉伯和英国宗教工作环境中的妇女着装

这篇文章探讨了在宗教工作场所的女性是如何回应组织规范和要求适度的着装和行为的，无论是隐性的还是显性的。它比较了两个案例研究:在英国为信仰组织(FBOs)工作的女性，以及在沙特阿拉伯工作的世俗组织工作的女性，在沙特阿拉伯，国家要求穿着端庄意味着穿阿拉伯长袍(2019年略有放松)。数据来自对43名女性的半结构化采访:21人从英国前往沙特阿拉伯，22人在英国的fbo工作。它研究了三个主题:女性如何适应适度的着装形式，她们如何驾驭着装规范，以及她们如何在习惯和真实性之间进行协商。这篇文章提出，女性在受宗教规范支配的工作场所的适度着装应被理解为一种生活宗教实践的形式，它提出了习惯和真实性的困境。

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Sociology of Religion Multiple-

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7.50

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.