Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / / Amy K. Milligan

• Autore: Milligan Amy K. <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham ; ; Boulder ; ; New York ; ; London : , : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 391.5088/296832
• Soggetto topico: Hair - Religious aspects - Judaism; Jewish women - Religious life; Jewish women - Conduct of life; Modesty - Religious aspects - Judaism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this study, Milligan uses an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to consider the lived religious cultural experiences of Orthodox Jewish women living in a small community. Through an investigation of hair and head covering, Milligan explores the meaning of tradition in a contemporary context.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women
• ISBN: 1-4985-0554-6; 0-7391-8366-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816295403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II