Malay Muslim Religious Ideology: Representations of Gendered Beauty Ideals in Women’s Magazines

Ideals of facial beauty.

Facial aesthetic procedures are central to cosmetic dermatology. Success depends not only on improving individual structures but also on establishing facial harmony. Several canons of aesthetic dimensions have been described, and these concepts can provide a useful basis for procedural planning. Here, we review aesthetic facial measurements and proportions as well as the variations that may occ...

Disentangling Religious, Ethnic and Gendered Contents in Boundary Work: How Young Adults Create the Figure of ‘The Oppressed Muslim Woman’

The binary opposition between ‘equal European women’ and ‘oppressed Muslim women’ has become a powerful representation in Switzerland and throughout Europe. Yet little is empirically known about the mechanisms through which actors in their everyday lives (re)produce this prominent construction. In this mixed-method study with young adults in a French-speaking Swiss Canton, we explore how and on...

The Construction of Beauty in Malay Magazine Advertisements

The images in advertisements have the power to shape one’s perception, specifically the way one looks at the world. While the images of women portrayed in most advertisements in the American and European context are often seen as a creation of artificiality that establishes an impossible standard of physical perfection for most women, the question of whether such a state of affairs exists in th...

On Religious Prosociality, Fairness, and Beauty

Previous theoretical and empirical studies of the effects of religion on adherents' prosociality have focused, almost entirely on the intragroup and intergroup aspects of religion, as facilitators of prosocial attitudes and behaviors. The moral values preached by various religions were treated inseparably, as part of a whole of religious practices, which contribute to the evolution of cohesive,...

Faithful Representations of Polishable Ideals