Ablution Socks: The Logic of Market Capitalism and Its Limits
The marketing of “wudhu socks" provides an interesting window onto how the forces of consumer capitalism in twenty-first-century America are brought to bear on a centuries-old hermeneutical, legal, and theological tradition in Islam that has long conceptualized purity through embodiment and obj...
| Published in: | MAVCOR journal |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2022
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MAVCOR journal
Year: 2022, Volume: 6, Issue: 2 |
| Further subjects: | B
Wudhu
B Purification B Islam B Ritual B Socks B Qur'an B Capitalism |
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| Summary: | The marketing of “wudhu socks" provides an interesting window onto how the forces of consumer capitalism in twenty-first-century America are brought to bear on a centuries-old hermeneutical, legal, and theological tradition in Islam that has long conceptualized purity through embodiment and objects. |
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| ISSN: | 2475-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22332/mav.obj.2022.6 |