Religion as oppressive or liberating
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- Created on: 03-06-19 10:46
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- Religion as oppressive or liberating- Feminists
- De Beauvoir
- Religion controls women by rewarding their oppression w/ heaven
- Bruce
- Women (despite participating in rel. more) are excluded from important roles
- Armstrong
- No major religion has a positive view/ treatment of women
- Daley
- Christianity reinforces women's position in 4 ways
- Religious images- women are seen as virginial or as prostitutes conforming to men
- Religious teachings- women are seen as pure or evil and promiscuous
- Excluded from church hierarchy- stained glass ceiling
- Oppression and deception- church act as form of social control as they reinforce men are in charge- women are taught if they're good wives they will be rewarded in heaven
- El sawadi
- Islamic wives do not need to take thier husbands name, thus keeping thier identity
- Watson
- The burka is way of avoiding oppression and male aggression as it is a layer of protection from sexual harassment
- Evaluation
- Don't consider the impact of class and ethnicity
- Don't address issue of secularisation and the positive/ negative impact it as on gender inequality
- Ignore progress- women can now move up in the CoE since 1994
- Ignore the comforting aspect of religion
- De Beauvoir
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