Religious Identity, Challenge, and Clothing: Women’s Head and Hair Covering in Islam and Judaism
This qualitative research examined the issues of women’s head covering in Islam and Judaism. It focuses on the role played by head-covering decisions in the development of religious identity. Translated sources of Islamic and Jewish law on modest dress set the context of religious rulings in which w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Journal of empirical theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 160-170 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Judaism
/ Woman
/ Headgear
/ Religious identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion BH Judaism BJ Islam NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam
Judaism
head covering
religious development
spirituality
religious practice
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| Summary: | This qualitative research examined the issues of women’s head covering in Islam and Judaism. It focuses on the role played by head-covering decisions in the development of religious identity. Translated sources of Islamic and Jewish law on modest dress set the context of religious rulings in which women wrestle with decisions about head-covering. Ten practising Muslim and Jewish women were interviewed about their experiences of head/hair covering. Head/hair covering was seen as an expression of identity, and as a way of managing identity. It is a key topic for both Muslim and Jewish women, central in identity development and in decisions relating to identity development, identity threat, acculturation, spirituality, and social relations with men. The role of dress is one of many aspects of ritual deserving closer attention from psychologists of religion, along with the more general topic of the impact of religious practice on religious and spiritual development. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-9256 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of empirical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341344 |