Abstract
The role of personal grooming as an indicator of commitment to church hierarchy is examined in a study of one congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Latter-day Saints Church policy urges men to be clean-shaven. In the present study, we interview all men in one ward who have worn beards or mustaches, in order to investigate questions of authority, identity, and conflict that occurred as a result of violating the grooming norm. Interviewees describe an identity conflict, with self-expression conflicting with the desire to demonstrate faithfulness to their church. In some cases, they reconcile the conflict by conforming to the norm; in others, they violate the norm out of a sense of asserting their own identity, but this comes at a cost of distance from their church identity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 807-825 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Mental Health, Religion and Culture |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
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Scopus Subject Areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
Keywords
- Latter-day Saints
- Men's grooming
- Norm violation
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