i'm repeating this question, since i didn't get much response and specific answers earlier..
I once saw a group of women wearing black hijab giving away flyers at a shopping mall,i thot they were muslims. but when i got the flyers, it was christian flyers about christians masses and gatherings.i'm confused..
no, there are not nuns. i know how nuns look like; i was schooled at an all girls christian school.
the flyers was about chritianity and christian masses and gathering events.
2006-10-30 03:34:44 · 10 answers · asked by musica 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps they might have been Russian Orthodox nuns or members of one of the other branches of Eastern Christianity?
Here's a pic: http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/Nuns001.jpg
Note: the lady in the center is an abbess, hence the different style of headcovering.
2006-11-01 12:11:55 · answer #1 · answered by Lilo42 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fudamentalist Christian women wear a head covering. Some of those head coverings might look- to a Muslim- about the same as hijab, and others look completely different. A veil over the face is not a Christian tradition at all except by the bride in a wedding ceremony. Head coverings in all religious traditions are only the traditions of humans groups to distinguish themselves from other groups of humans. These things are not and have never been a commandment from God.
Christians can quote the apostle Paul and Muslims can cite hadith, but no person can show that God requires a woman to cover her head.
2006-10-30 03:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all nuns wear a traditional habit like in the movies...and masses are associated with the Catholic faith. I'm thinking they were probably Catholic nuns.
2006-10-30 03:37:48 · answer #3 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Masses are catholic that sugests it was most likely nuns but alternatly they may have been exmuslim targetting muslim women I can not answer more general no christians to not wear hijab.
2006-10-30 03:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some do because the region from which they came dictates hijab for all women, or it is just native dress which is optional for them. Also, ~I~ wore one once as part of a sociology project. I'm not Islamic or Christian, though.
2006-10-30 03:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I know of. Maybe they were a sect of nuns that were different from catholic nuns. I don't know. I've never seen women wear those where I'm from.
2006-10-30 03:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by odd duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called fashionable Nuns.
2006-10-30 03:37:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mishrik 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know,hijabs was also included in christanity,later orders were modified,putting compulsion only on nuns.
2006-10-30 05:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No only Muslim women wear hijab because THEY respect themselves.
2006-10-30 03:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by baddrose268 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes they do wear a hijab, but it is called a scarf.
2006-10-30 03:51:20 · answer #10 · answered by slmanl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋