This paper will make use of the online Islamic beauty contest in Indonesia as a means to scrutini... more This paper will make use of the online Islamic beauty contest in Indonesia as a means to scrutinize the way body is culturally constructed in religious realm as point of attraction to gain fame and popularity. More specifically, this paper will investigate the process of self-narrating the body, transforming the matter into cultural signs embodied in the form of narrative. As shown on their online website, all participants in this beauty contest are allowed to make statement or profession about themselves, arguing why they are praiseworthy, both in secular and spiritual term. Veiling the body is the route for fame and recognition. Their religious experience of using up veil/burqa is highly valued for it can be the cause of becoming a big shot. It appears that the religious conception of beauty requires the phantasm of the body, and image is not the only neccessary mode of representational exist to perform the body because the narrative does too. Could the body be the cyber-evangelist through subject's confession?
This paper will make use of the online Islamic beauty contest in Indonesia as a means to scrutini... more This paper will make use of the online Islamic beauty contest in Indonesia as a means to scrutinize the way body is culturally constructed in religious realm as point of attraction to gain fame and popularity. More specifically, this paper will investigate the process of self-narrating the body, transforming the matter into cultural signs embodied in the form of narrative. As shown on their online website, all participants in this beauty contest are allowed to make statement or profession about themselves, arguing why they are praiseworthy, both in secular and spiritual term. Veiling the body is the route for fame and recognition. Their religious experience of using up veil/burqa is highly valued for it can be the cause of becoming a big shot. It appears that the religious conception of beauty requires the phantasm of the body, and image is not the only neccessary mode of representational exist to perform the body because the narrative does too. Could the body be the cyber-evangelist through subject's confession?
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