F&F at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge

London College of Fashion

Listen back to the most recent Faith & Fashion event held in collaboration with the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. With a session theme of Embodiment, Gender, and Religious Visibility, Professor Reina Lewis, discussed the politics of religious visibility through dress in the interfaith context, along with Dr Kristin Aune from Coventry University whose research on UK feminist approaches to religion and spirituality reveals the lived, embodied, and relational nature of religio-spirituality in contemporary life. From the Woolf Institute, Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller demonstrated the role of modesty and beauty practices in the construction of female piety among ultra-Orthodox teenagers in Israel. An international perspective on the diverse personal, political, and style motivations for young women’s take up of modest dressing in the Middle East was provided by the session chair, academic and journalist Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad.