Features of Religious Categorization of Women with and without a Hijab ; Особенности религиозной категоризации женщин в хиджабе и без него

The paper examines the role of external appearance in the religious categorizationof Another (identification of Another as a representative of a certain confession).The paper provides an overview of domestic and foreign literature on this issue, aswell as the results of the carried out study. The authors examine the role of externalappearance in the process of categorization of Another in whole, as well as relationshipswith representatives of various different confessions. The study involved girls at theage from 18 to 25 living in the Southern Federal District.Research methods included a number of authors’ questionnaires, whenrespondents had to evaluate their relation to representatives of various religiousconfessions (a modified “Technique for diagnostics of positivity–negativity of relation toethnic groups” by V. A. Labunskaia, A. A. Bzezian), as well as their relation to girls withhijabs (a traditional veil in Islam, which usually covers the head and neck) and withouthijab, and also categorize the girls according to their religious beliefs (“Diagnosticsof a relations to Another depending on the external appearance” questionnaire).To carry out the comparative analysis the authors used non-parametric mathematicalprocedures. The present study confirmed that external appearance (presence/absenceof a hijab) is a starting mechanism of religious categorization of Another and influencesthe formation of relation to him/her (friendly or hostile). Taking into account migrationprocesses in Russia and Europe, further study of the issue is still required. ; Статья посвящена проблеме роли внешнего облика в религиозной категоризации Другого (идентификации Другого как представителя определенной конфессии). В работе приводится обзор отечественных и зарубежных источников, посвященных данной проблеме, а также результаты проведенного авторами исследования. Исследуется роль внешнего облика в процессе категоризации Другого в целом, а кроме того – взаимоотношение с представителями различных конфессий. Приводятся результаты ...