| 书目名称 | Religious Hair Display and Its Meanings | | 编辑 | William C. Innes, Jr | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Uniquely and simultaneously considers religious hair practices from the believer’s spiritual viewpoint, theology, history, sociology and psychology.Conveys how head coverings like the hijab and turban | | 丛书名称 | Popular Culture, Religion and Society. A Social-Scientific Approach | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book explores the fascinating world of religious hair observances within six religious traditions that account for 77% of the world’s adherents: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Symbolic use of hair has been, and remains, prevalent in all six and carries significant amounts of religious and social meaning. Hair is a unique body substance. It can be shaped and colored, removed from us without pain but still retain an individual’s essence, signal our age, sex, and sexual maturity, and much, much more. .The book’s approach is to situate each practice within its tradition. That requires a study of its foundational leaders and their teachings, sacred texts (where they mention hair), its rites and rituals, ideas of religious power and subsequent historical development. Contemporary practitioners are interviewed for their motivations. Even more insight can be gleaned by searching beyond an overt religious purpose. Social scientists from anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related fields bring their research to deliver added perceptions..The author reveals how hair practices are created from ancient psychological and cultural impulses, become modif | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Hair and Religion; Body as Symbol; Comparative World Religions; Religious ritual; Religious Purity Rites | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69974-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-69976-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-69974-1Series ISSN 2509-3223 Series E-ISSN 2509-3231 | | issn_series | 2509-3223 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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