Body Image and Religiosity among Veiled and Non-Veiled Turkish Women

The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples, is often explained in terms of a moderate dress style of highly religious women. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the relationship between body image, religiosity, and dress style among female Mu...

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主要作者: Demmrich, Sarah 1986- (Author)
其他作者: Atmaca, Sümeyya ; Dinç, Cüneyt
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2017
In: Journal of empirical theology
Year: 2017, 卷: 30, 發布: 2, Pages: 127-147
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Türkei / 女穆斯林 / 面紗 / 宗教性 / 身像
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Body Image veiling popular religiosity normative religiosity
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總結:The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples, is often explained in terms of a moderate dress style of highly religious women. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the relationship between body image, religiosity, and dress style among female Muslims who live in Muslim-majority countries. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory questionnaire study among 59 female Muslims between 17 and 46 years (n = 29 veiled, n = 30 non-veiled) in Turkey, measuring social appearance anxiety and religiosity (intrinsic, extrinsic, normative, popular religiosity). The results show that veiled women score much lower on social appearance anxiety than non-veiled women. All four forms of religiosity are highly negatively correlated with social appearance anxiety for the whole sample and the veiled subsample. The results are discussed in the context of wearing the hijab and normative religiosity as important buffering factors against a negative body image among Turkish-Muslim women.
實物描述:Online-Ressource
ISSN:1570-9256
Contains:In: Journal of empirical theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341359