{"id":55056,"date":"2026-11-10T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=55056"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:35:40","slug":"female-veiling-in-mormonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/female-veiling-in-mormonism\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Veiling in Mormonism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funeral and temple veiling for women is one of those practices that would sound familiar to other religious traditions (and yes, I\u2019m aware things have changed). For example, during my Traditional Latin Mass research you quickly come into contact with the Catholic version of this\u2013the wearing of the Mantilla that traditional Catholics will often (but not always) wear to the TLM. And then there\u2019s the older tradition that women meeting the pope wear a black veil. This practice has generally fallen out of favor, but it\u2019s sometimes revived, as was the case when Michelle Obama visited the Vatican.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And then in Eastern Orthodox Churches women are supposed to wear a head covering in church, and then of course there are the different variations on the Islamic dress code.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I wasn\u2019t aware of the actual LDS-specific history and thought behind the practice, and how it might be genealogically related to the common religious practice more generally. Nor could I find any one-stop-shop Dialogue, BYU Studies, or JMH article that explains it, so I did a dive into the practice and how it related to other faiths\u2019 similar practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n