People thinking youre pentocostal because of your hair?

[jmrdelorean]

I went to college in the area. There are a significant amount of Pentecostal and other religious folk in the Ozarks that can have very long hair. (Usually hidden under a bonnet) I generally don’t see that anywhere else in the US.

[Dark40]

I'd say in my country....Or, just for my sake my hair is long for religious reasons. Like, the Bible always says, "A woman's long hair is her crown and glory!" And, that's also what my grandmother used to tell my mother, too when she kept on cutting her hair short.

[Saige]

I get this a lot, too. Most people just ask if I'm religious but others specifically ask if I'm pentecostal. I've always thought it odd, too, as I'm not aware of any pentecostal groups in my area, or other religious groups, for that matter I just have long hair because I like it!

[Alexandrina]

Not pentecostal specifically, no, but I have been asked if not cutting it is a religious thing.

[luxurioushair]

This is so strange. Must be regional. I grew up around a lot of pentecostals and long hair was not common.

I think they mean the Apostolic pentecostals specifically

[JasminxCat]

This is so strange. Must be regional. I grew up around a lot of pentecostals and long hair was not common.

Long hair wasn’t common with pentecostals or wasn’t common due to your region? Where I am, almost all if not all pentecostals have very long hair

[MoonLady]

Long hair wasn’t common with pentecostals or wasn’t common due to your region? Where I am, almost all if not all pentecostals have very long hair

Both. Long hair wasn't common in my area or in the Pentecostal community I grew up around. You never really saw anything past bra strap / midback length. These Pentecostals seem not to prefer long hair

[MoonLady]

I think they mean the Apostolic pentecostals specifically

Yeah, I guess there must be different kinds of Pentecostals like anything else. I have no idea which specific kind of Pentecostals were around me.

[shelomit]

As far as I know, it's primarily Apostolic/non-Trinitarian Pentecostals who are associated with the "Pentecostal pouf," although a variety of other Pentecostal churches, and even some Holiness churches like the Nazarenes, place an emphasis on I Cor. 11:1-16 in one way or another. There's an interesting student anthropological study here.

I can't recall having ever been "pegged" for a Pentecostal on the basis of my hair, despite at times having lived in places with a high Apostolic Pentecostal population. When I'm out and about I've got a headscarf on, which, even if some of my hair is visible, puts a whole bunch of different religious/ethnic associations in people's minds ( ;

[spidermom]

The only place I've been asked if my hair is long for religious reasons is here, but not personally; it was the subject of a thread.