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Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Estonians, Võros, Setos, Karelians, Veps, Izhorians, Votes and Livonians, prior to Christianisation. [1] [2] It was a polytheistic religion, worshipping a number of different deities. [3]
The dress of women must not only cover virtually the entire body, but cannot be either transparent or close-fitting to reveal the shape of the body. [38] When onlookers are close relations, prohibitions for women do not include hair, ears, neck, upper part of the chest, arms and legs. [39]
The trend of exposing the navel was started by women who were dancers, acrobats, or entertainers, and who developed a technique of wearing the sari like a pair of trousers well below the navel to assist in the free movement of the legs. [118] Women in this type of attire are very common in many ancient Indian sculptures, [119] and paintings. [120]
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, professing that Jesus was raised from the dead and is the Son of God, [7] [8] [9] [note 2] whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.
A strict policy of modesty is characteristic of the Haredi press in recent years, and pictures of women are usually not printed. [114] In 2009, the Israeli daily Yated Ne'eman doctored an Israeli cabinet photograph replacing two female ministers with images of men, [ 115 ] and in 2013, the Bakehilah magazine pixelated the faces of women ...
There are a number of denominations within mainstream religions, such as in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, that wish to enforce what they see as a distinction in the sexes, as well as the prohibition of women revealing the contour legs, requiring all women and young girls to wear a long dress or skirt rather than trousers. [11] [10] [79]
The secret to Billy Bob Thornton’s cool style is a pair of nice-fitting women’s jeans.. In a new interview on The Drew Barrymore Show which aired on Nov. 19, the Oscar winner, 69, said that he ...
In ancient Indian society, "practices that restricted women's social mobility and behavior" existed but the arrival of Islam in India "intensified these Hindu practices, and by the 19th century purdah was the customary practice of high-caste Hindu and elite communities throughout India."