SOCIOLOGY: BELIEFS IN SOCIETY, FEMINISM & RELIGION
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- FEMINISM AND RELIGION
- women's position in religions
- Even though many denominations and some sects have had female clergy for some time, it's only recently the C of E has allowed female vicars
- how feminists view religion
- feminists take a critical view religion believing it is patriarchal in terms of its ideologies and messages, as well as roles and structures
- ideology example: Anderson & Gordon (1979) witch hunting reflected low status of women as seen as evil/anti-christ and feminine
- Browne refers to the barriers to women's promotion within religions 'stained-glass ceiling'
- some religions are more liberal than others in terms of gender, they are collectively seen as helping maintain the patriarchy and women's submission
- feminists take a critical view religion believing it is patriarchal in terms of its ideologies and messages, as well as roles and structures
- Simone De Beauvoir (1949)
- particularly that of wives and mothers - imbalance of domestic work, women unfulfilled and trapped in the home (financial dependence) and the of this benefit to men
- religion is an instrument for male domination women are deceived into thinking they're equal when they're the 2nd sex
- How they accuse religion of being patriarchal
- they provide divine justification for women's oppression e.g. it is God's verdict
- religion undermining women is seen by attitudes to menstruation and child-birth
- Holm argues both are regarded across a wide range of religions as 'polluting'
- in scientific, modern, rational times this is seen as a form of control
- Holm (1994) in the public sphere of religion, men almost always dominate.
- in the private sphere, socialisation of children into religion is done by women and a lot of religious work in the household
- Islam: prophet Muhammed is male, men make legal judgements
- Hindiusm: preg/menstruating women can't approach shrines
- Islam: prophet Muhammed is male, men make legal judgements
- in the private sphere, socialisation of children into religion is done by women and a lot of religious work in the household
- Holm argues both are regarded across a wide range of religions as 'polluting'
- CRITICAL VIEW
- Viewed as encouraging women to be passive and tolerant of an inferior position in return for afterlife reward
- Nawal El Saadawi (radical)
- - Veiling of women enforced by men is a means of control
- Similarly, Aldridge argues the burka is a powerful symbol of patriarchy > denies women individualism
- she also highlighted oppression in non-islamic religions
- C14th Catholicism: women treating people for illness, without training were witches
- - Veiling of women enforced by men is a means of control
- Liberal feminists
- optimistic, see education and legislation as moving society forward, changes in CofE and denominations that have a female clergy
- not much gender progress in Catholicism
- optimistic, see education and legislation as moving society forward, changes in CofE and denominations that have a female clergy
- Radical feminists
- All religions are patriarchal; serving to oppress women and benefit men
- Walby noted how womens body's are 'polluting' as they promote promiscuity and menstruate
- All religions are patriarchal; serving to oppress women and benefit men
- Marxist feminists
- Religion = significant force in promoting false class consc. and compensator for women's oppression
- women's position in religions
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