Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dress and the social control of the body / Linda B. Arthur -- The social control of women's bodies in two Mennonite communities / Beth Graybill and Linda B. Arthur -- Sacred dress, public worlds: Amish and Mormon experiences and commitment / Jean A. Hamilton and Jana Hawley -- Polynesian cultural center and the Mormon image of the body: images of paradise on Laie, Hawaii / Frank Salamone -- The obedient and disobedient daughters of the church: Strangite Mormon dress as a mode of control / Gayle Veronica Fischer -- Dress and interaction in contending cultures: Eastern Dakota and Euroamericans in nineteenth century Minnesota / Sandra Lee Evenson and David J. Trayte -- The African American church, its sacred cosmos, and dress / Gwendolyn S. O'Neal -- Fashion and identity of women religious / Susan O. Michelman -- The Paarda expression of Hejaab among Afghan women in a non-Muslim community / M. Catherine Daly -- Hasidic women's head-coverings: a feminized system of Hasidic distinction / Barbara Goldman Carrel -- Jewish genes, Jewish jeans: a fashionable body / Karen Anijar.