Feminism and Religion
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- Created on: 04-05-15 14:41
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- Feminism and Religion
- Gender Inequality
- Armstrong
- Early history saw women as focus of religion (goddess)
- Monotheistic religions replaced polotheistic, focus on male gods.
- Large scale religions
- Holm
- Men dominate the public sphere of religion
- Women perform most private sphere jobs e.g. socialisation
- Examples: Women cannot become priests
- God is a male and father figure, as well as Jesus and the disciples (Christianity)
- Men interpreted and re-wrote the Bible
- Women cannot practice religion when menstruating of after birth (Hinduism)
- Yang spirits are more powerful and associated with men not women (Chinese folk)
- Most equal religion as any gender can work way up hierarchy (Sikhism)
- Gender Inequality
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