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Christian Women's Hair Covering

Here's the passage you're looking for. It's in 1 Corinthians, chapter 11, of the Christian Testament. The first 16 verses are the ones relevant to your question.

1 Cor 11:5
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
Lack of a cap/scarf/hat/snood is identical, according to the Christian Testament, to being bald. If you're NOT wearing a covering, this text requires you to shave your head! (Though, if you're covered, no one will ever know if you've shaved your head, so you might as well save some money on styling products, yeah?)

Compare:
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
In other words, since you're always praying, you should be always covered.

Jewish Women's Hair Covering

There's also something relevant to this in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish law. Women who are or have been married (widows and divorcees) are required to cover their hair. A woman who has never been married does not have to. Here's the proof text for this. Read the first full 18 verses, but especially verse 18.

The Talmud in K'tubot 72a states that the source for this prohibition is from BaMidbar (Numbers) 5:18 which deals with the laws of a sotah - a suspected adulteress - and states, "The priest shall stand the woman before God and uncover her hair...". Rash'i (Rabbi Shlomo Yitchaki, 1040-1105, author of the primary commentary on the Talmud) provides two explanations for the Talmud's conclusion, one, that from the fact that she is punished midah kneged midah (measure for measure) for exposing her hair to her paramour we see that this is prohibited and, two, from the fact that we expose her hair we see that under normal conditions a Jewish woman's hair should be covered.

(I included the Jewish part just to make the compare/contrast easier to follow.)

Wow! That sounds very generous of you. 3nodding

These are all great points Divash brings up that should always be at the back of our minds when doing anything that might be considered out-of-the-ordinary.

That might be a good place to start, actually. Go talk to the Muslimah and the Jew and ask how they got the administration to accept their head coverings. Ask them to meet with you at lunch or something, and get all three of you talking together. Ask if they have coreligionists who might wish to form a club, or at least an informal gathering once in a while.

Also speak to your fellow Christians concerning head covering. Ask each one whether they would cover if the school permitted it, and how they would cover -- hat, cap, scarf, snood, hood? Hair partially or completely covered? Boys and girls, or only girls? -- and write down everything. Then go to the administration and just ask, "Some of us would like to cover our heads/hair for religious reasons, but we don't want it to become a huge controversy. Could you recommend a style that you would permit at school, whether someone was religious or not, that has no gang symbolism attached? We know that red or blue bandanas might send a message that isn't the one we would intend. What other gang signs should we avoid, that we don't really know about ourselves, while still being able to honor our personal convictions, and not start a controversy with other students wanting to cover, too?"

If you don't want to be mistaken for Muslim, either for your own safety or in order that you should not be thought of as mocking Islam, just leave your neck and ears uncovered. Muslim scriptures specify that a woman's face, hands, and feet may be uncovered, but all the rest should be covered, including the neck and ears.

I really love the idea, I am really curious to know what happend, and also want to know where do you live(I mean which Country).

But because a woman's hair is such a gift and so important, such a sacrifice would be extremely pleasing to God, no? It teaches humility and simultaneously puts others needs before hers (like donating her hair to cancer patients).