Perspectives of religion
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- Perspectives of religion
- Feminists
- Marxist
- De Beauvoir - religion reinforces the needs of capitalism and the housewife role in women. Women cushion the effects of capitalism g for men as religion cushions its effect for women
- Religion provides for women in a housewife role e.g crèche and mum and baby groups
- Women are represented as mothers and carers in holy texts
- The Year of the Madonna
- Religion provides ways for women to cope with their lives and compensates them spiritually for their suffering
- De Beauvoir - religion reinforces the needs of capitalism and the housewife role in women. Women cushion the effects of capitalism g for men as religion cushions its effect for women
- Radical
- El Sadaawi - religion upholds patriarchy and is oppressive due to interpretation by men
- Men have more power in Quran and do not equal consequences for the same crime
- Eve seen as a negative evil influence
- Daly - women suffer at the hands of religion due to feminine evil and thoughts about women’s rights e.g abortion
- Women are not able to fully engage with religion e.g not being able to be priests; cannot enter temple when menstruating
- Monotheism led to the death of the goddess and subsequently led to oppression through religion
- El Sadaawi - religion upholds patriarchy and is oppressive due to interpretation by men
- Liberal
- Religion socialises women and men differently which maintains gender inequalities
- Marxist
- Marxists (Marx and Lenin)
- Religion creates + controls false class consciousness
- Suffering is made virtuous and is seen as a test from god. Suggests that suffering is good and improves faith
- Religion justifies hierarchy and normalises inequalities in society
- Offering hope of supernatural intervention through faith and prayer
- Promises life after death - suggesting that suffering now will lead to rewards in heaven
- Religion is a ‘spiritual gin’ / ‘opium of the masses’ due to its mind-altering effect on people, preventing them from seeing the truth and keeping them in their place and not revolting
- Religion creates + controls false class consciousness
- Functionalists
- Malinowski
- Religion reinforces social values
- Provides us with meaning and support in life crises or uncertainty
- Religious support of rites of passage e.g bar/bat mitzvah
- Trobriand islanders performed religious rituals which ‘determined the success’ of an event
- Parsons
- Religion provides guidelines for behaviour and standards of how behaviours should be judged
- It maintains value consensus in society
- It helps people manage in life crises
- Bellah
- Civil religion is when sacred qualities are attached to a society or nation
- Unites all regardless of religion or denomination and sacralises the way of life
- E.g America has a civil religion as it praises ‘Americanism’
- Unites all regardless of religion or denomination and sacralises the way of life
- Civil religion is when sacred qualities are attached to a society or nation
- Durkheim
- Stability and cohesion to integrate and unite believers
- Social identity us given to believers and also unites them
- Collective conscience dictates the sense of morality
- Social control teaches reward and punishment in religion
- Meaning and purpose are given to the lives of believers
- Socialisation into norms and values
- Malinowski
- Feminists
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