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Hair & Religion

This may seem like an odd topic, but really it isn't as most religions prove their faith by the way they keep their hair or shave their heads. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked all the hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. How does your religion view hair? Issues to consider: women shaving legs, men shaving beards, etc.

Religion and Hair

Well, the only religion i am familiar with in terms of hair traditions, is in Hinduism. In India, it is tradition that both boys and girls have their head shaven at a young age..usually around 3yrs old (it is believed that it should not be performed when the child is an even-numbered age, such as two or four years old because even numbers are considered less auspicious than odd numbers).

This is believed to have the power to cleanse the body and soul. The hair on a child's head when he emerges from the womb is considered impure and must be shaved off to make way for the strong, clean hair that grows thereafter. It is also a symbolic release of the child from his mother. Usually by three, the child is no longer being nursed by the mother, and is no longer physically dependent on her. The influence of the father becomes more important. With the father's influence, the child's education is also believed to begin.

And traditionally, long hair for a young girl/woman, is seen as a sign of beauty. In fact i used to have short hair and my grandmother told me that no one will marry me.....so i guess its still sort of a followed tradition for some people.

Hair & Religion Beliefs Religious General

What a qualifier for marriage - although I must admit that I am an advocate of long hair too.

As for religion and hair the Old Testament is very rigid in the keeping of one's hair, beard and so on. It even talks about the women keeping their hair long and the men keeping their hair shorter. There is even the story of Samson, a strong man, who lost his hair and became weak.

In the LDS Church there are some standards about grooming where men should be shaven, especially when serving in the temple or on a mission. There is no set notes for women, but generally a simple hair style is preferred.

Religion and Hair

Yeah, the LDS church seems to focus more on what your hairstyle says about you than the actual nuts and bolts of how your hair is done.

For example there's nothing in the church specifically forbidding like say a mohawk, but it says something about you, and the church discourages against associated yourself with the type of people that those hairstyles are generally associated with.

Religion and Hair

My religion doesn't have any directive regarding hair styles beards etc, it is personal choice.
I have got friends though that attended the same church, and the woman had long hair always tied up in a scarf with no hair showing, her husband has short hair and a very long beard, and this is how they choose to interpret the Bible's information regarding hair and beards.

I know in strict Jewish households, children don't get their hair cut until they reach the age of 3, so there does seem to be lots of different religious ways of displaying your belief through the way you style your hair, and how groomed you are.

Hair & Religion

Name: Singh

Comments: In sikh religion a person is admitted only if he or she never trim hair, do check it out about Sikh religion , it's present internationally and have specific rules and regulations. Youngest religion of the world.

Hair & Religion

The religion I currently belong to does not have a restriction on hair. It is my personal belief that men have short hair and women have long hair.

Hair & Religion General Religious Beliefs

I believe in the FLDS (not the same as LDS) there are strict rules on how the women should have their hair. Apparently it should have a wave through the front, then pinned up at the back. If you look at most of their religious pictures, you can see that most women keep to this rule.