1. Material for this chapter primarily draws from those authors cited, as well as The Catholic Encyclopedia (www.newadvent.org/cathen); Dwyer (1995); Kay and Rubin (1994); and Kuhns (2003).
2. Colours of vestments can also change according to the Church’s calendar of events and the seasons of the year. Refer in the first instance to The Catholic Encyclopedia online (www.newadvent.org/cathen). We are concerned here principally with how vestments relate to rank.
3. Personal communication with Sisters of Mercy nuns, Brisbane, Australia, 2004.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Linda Arthur (personal communication) suggests that the Mother Hubbard dress might have stemmed from the Hawaiian Holoku, about which she has written (see Arthur 1998), and that further research on the Mother Hubbard dress and its origins is forthcoming.
8. The author lived in Noumea, New Caledonia, for three years, from 1969 to 1972, and observed at first-hand women wearing these dresses on a daily basis, including while they played cricket, another introduced cultural item; both continue to exist.
9. Information for Yoruba is from Renne (2000).
10. Information from author’s unpublished PhD thesis (Hume 1990).
11. Information for this section from Taylor (2009) and Litten (1991).
1. Sources for background information on the Anabaptists in addition to those texts cited: The Canadian Encyclopedia (www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com); The Catholic Encyclopedia (www.newadvent.org/cathen/10190b.htm); Swatos (1998); Melton and Baumann (2002); www.hutteriteheritage.com; www.history.mennonite.net/; and www.hutterites.org/religion.htm
2. The author visited Hutterite communities in Alberta, Canada, during her fifteen years living in Alberta (1977–1992), after having met some Hutterite women during their stay in a Calgary hospital.
3. See www.hutteriteheritage.com
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. See Hurst and McConnell (2010) for the complex nuances of everyday Amish life and how they deal with changes that are forced on them from the outside.
8. The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, ‘Amish Population Trends 2008-2013, Five-Year Highlights’ (www2.etown.edu/amishstudies/Population_Trends_2012.asp).
1. Sources for background information on Judaism in addition to those cited in text: Encyclopedia Britannica (2003); Neusner, Avery Peck and Green (2000); Landman (2009); Cohn-Sherbok (1998); Maher (2006); www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm; and www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Kippah.html
2. Sources for background information on Islam in addition to those texts cited: Encyclopedia Britannica (2003); Melton and Baumann (2002); Smart (1989); and Khuri (2001).
3. See www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
1. The author spent time in India in 2006.
2. Banerjee and Miller (2003) provided a substantial amount of information for the section on the sari, as well as Shukla (2008). See also Kawlra (2010), Maynard (2004) and http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/sects.html for background information on dress and globalization.
3. The author visited some textile shops on a tour of India in 2006.
4. Some background sources for information on Hindus: Flood (1996); Melton and Baumann (2010); www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/
5. See Hullet and Roces (1981); www.geovision.com.my/malaysia/general/religious/festivals/thaipusam.html
6. Sources for background information on Sadhus: Flood (1996); Hartsuiker (1993); Hausner (2007); http://utopia.knoware.nl.users/olfhart/sects.html
7. See http://utopia.knoware.nl.users/olfhart/sects.html
8. Sources for background information on Sikhs: N.-G. Singh (2004); Melton and Baumann(2002);McLeod(1989);www.sikhs.org/;www.sikhnet.com/s/WhyTurbans; www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/customs/fiveks.shtml
9. See www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/customs/fiveks.shtml
10. See www.sikhnet.com/s/WhyTurbans
11. Sources for background information on Jains: Vallely (2009); Cort (2001); www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/jainism; www.jainism.org;www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/jainism/; www.dlshq.org/religions/jainism.htm
1. Sources for background information on Buddhism: Encyclopedia Britannica (2003); Oxford Dictionary of Buddhism (2004); Andersen (1979); Batchelor (2010); Beer (2004); Buswell (2003); Karuna (2012); Tanabe (2003); Thurman (1995); Bikku (1998); www.buddhanet/pdf_file/bhkkrule.pdf); Sopa (2007/2008); www.BuddhaNet.net.
2. Interviewed by Lynne Hume at Chenrezig Buddhist community, Queensland, Australia in June 2012.
3. Evans-Wentz (1973); Kramer (1988); Encyclopedia Britannica (2003).
1. Sources for background information on the Sufis: Bearman et al. (2009); Corbin (1969); Ernst and Lawrence (2002); Helminksi (2006); Netton (2000); www.sufism.org/society/sema2.html; www.whirlingdervishes.org/whirlingdervishes.htm
2. Sources for background information on Shamanism: Czaplicka (1914); Kendall (1985); Kister (2004); Lommel (1967); Potapov (1999); Townsend (1997); Vitebsky (2001); Walter and Fridman (2004).
3. The author carried out research on modern Paganism in 1991 (in Canada and the United States) and 1992–2000 (in Australia). Much of the information is gleaned from this research. See Hume (1997). See also Valiente (1978); Ezzy (2011); and Pike (2001).
1. The practice of blood sacrifice no longer occurs everywhere.
2. Sources for background information on Vodou: Bodin (1990); Brown (1991); Deren (1970 [1953]); Gordon (2000); Hurbon (1995); and Tselos (2000).
3. Sources for Santería drawn principally from González-Wippler (1992); Murphy (1994); and Gordon (2000). See also De La Torre (2004) and Pérez y Mena (1998, 1999).
4. Sources for Candomblé: Murphy (1994); Shirey (2012); Wafer (1991); www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/candomble/.