Gender and Religiosity
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 10-09-14 11:28
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- Gender and Religiosity
- Introduction
- Different social classes tend to be attracted to different movements (for example, lower classes with world-rejecting sects). However, gender is also a very important factor.
- More women are religious than men
- Evidence: In 2005, 1.8 million women were churchgoers as opposed to 1.36 million.
- Bruce: Estimates twice as many women than men are involved in sects.
- Evidence: Heelas and Woodhead: 80% of the holistic milieu in Kendal were female.
- Socialisation and the gender role
- Miller and Hoffman: Women are more religious than men because they are socialised to have characteristics valued by most religions (obedient/caring)
- Davie: Women's closer proximity to birth and death brings them closer to "ultimate" questions about life that religion is concerned with.
- Women and the New Age
- As women are often associated with a healing role, they are more attracted to New Age movements than men.
- Bruce: Women fit the expressive emphasis of the New Age because child-rearing makes them more cooperative/caring.
- Compensation for deprivation
- Glock and Stark: Women are more likely to be deprived.
- Types of deprivation
- Organismic deprivation: Women are more likely to suffer from ill health and to seek healing
- Ethical deprivation: Women are more likely to be morally conservative and be attracted to the conservatism of some sects.
- Introduction
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