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When Religious Expectations Feel Like Self-Erasure

My husband expects me to cover my hair but when I put on hijab I feel like I'm disappearing and I don't know if that's supposed to be the point.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between spiritual submission and authentic selfhood creates a crisis of identity within religious practice.

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