Veiled Heads, Venerating Hearts: The Return of Veiling among US Catholics Post Vatican II
Veiling is a significant practice among different religious groups around the world. While typically associated with Islam, some Catholic women have recently re-embraced veiling practices, nearly forty years after Vatican II indicated that women no longer needed to cover their heads during Mass. To...
| Published in: | The international journal of religion and spirituality in society |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Common Ground Publishing
2022
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The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 43-58 |
| Further subjects: | B
Traditional Catholicism
B United States B Religious Identity B Veiling B Modesty |
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| Summary: | Veiling is a significant practice among different religious groups around the world. While typically associated with Islam, some Catholic women have recently re-embraced veiling practices, nearly forty years after Vatican II indicated that women no longer needed to cover their heads during Mass. To investigate why some Catholic women have chosen to re-veil, the authors conducted thirty in-depth interviews with practicing Catholic women who veil or do not veil from across the United States. The authors transcribed, coded, and analyzed all interviews, finding that many veiling women are 20-30 years old and their reasons for veiling indicate increased traditionalism among young Catholics with concomitant use of scapulars and the embrace of more conservative ideas about women’s modesty, femininity, and sexuality. The authors frame the discussion via the concept of teshuvah, a Hebrew term meaning "a return to a place of origin or a place where one belongs." This re-veiling signals a return to tradition and feminine values associated with the Virgin Mary—values that appear to be at odds with contemporary ideas about sexuality and bodily expression. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-8641 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v12i02/43-58 |