Female Stereotypes In Religious Traditions
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Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions
Author | : Ria Kloppenborg,Wouter J. Hanegraaff |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004378889 |
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This volume contains a collection of studies describing and analyzing stereotypes of women in the religions of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia, and in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Medieval Christianity, Islam, Indian Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Tibetan religions, and modern Neopaganism. In all these traditions the stereotypes are based on generalizations, which are socially, culturally or religiously legitimized, and which seem to have a lasting influence on society's conceptions of women. They represent oversimplified opinions, which are, however, regularly challenged by the women who are affected by them. In all traditions the stereotypes are ambiguous, either because women have challenged their validity, or because historical developments in society have reshaped them. They influence public opinion by emphasizing dominant views, as a strategy to restrain women and to keep them controlled by the rules and morals of a male-dominated society.
Women and Religious Traditions
Author | : Leona May Anderson,Pamela Dickey Young |
Publsiher | : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UVA:X004772741 |
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This text looks at women and religion in a wide range of international contexts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Aboriginal religions, and new religions that focus on the Goddess. Each chapter is organized around common themes and two case studies of experiences of religious women in North America are included.
Theory of Women in Religions
Author | : Catherine Wessinger |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781479899197 |
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An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women are not ordained as priests. In areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Taliban occupation girls and women students and their teachers risk their lives to go to school. And in Sri Lanka, fully ordained Buddhist nuns are denied the government identity cards that recognize them as citizens. Is it possible to create families, societies, and religions in which women and men are equal? And if so, what are the factors that promote equality? Theory of Women in Religions offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day. Catherine Wessinger integrates data and theories from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, gender studies, and psychology into a concise history of religions introduction to the complex relationship between gender and religion. She argues that socio-economic factors that support specific gender roles, in conjunction with religious norms and ideals, have created a gendered division of labor that both directly and indirectly reinforces gender inequality. Yet she also highlights how as the socio-economic situation is changing religion is being utilized to support the transition toward women’s equality, noting the ways in which many religious representations of gender change over time.
Women in Religion
Author | : Jean Holm,John Bowker |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441120595 |
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The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to their general role in society; and the significance of cultural influences for attitudes to women within the religious traditions.Addressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approaches a particular theme. Constructed to be comparative, the books are both authoritative and accessible. Each chapter is followed by a selected bibliography. This book is ideal for undergraduate students.
Women and World Religions
Author | : Lucinda J. Peach |
Publsiher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UVA:X030281423 |
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This book features a number of different articles and essays that focus on women as active agents of their spiritual lives--a topic that is often overlooked in most other world religion books. It explores how women from many parts of the world have thought about, acted, and have been treated as members of a religious tradition. Investigates how women of a variety of religious traditions (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, etc.) practice their religion, how their beliefs differ from men, and how they have carved out their own place within their religious tradition. For anyone interested in how women are shaped by and how they shape the various world religions.
Women and religion
Author | : Ruspini, Elisabetta,Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe |
Publsiher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781447336365 |
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This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women’s changes to religion in different parts of the world and among different religious traditions and practices. The contributors address a diverse range of themes and issues including the attitudes of different religions to gender equality; how women construct their identity through religious activity; whether women have opportunity to influence religious doctrine; and the impact of migration on the religious lives of both women and men.
Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity
Author | : Shayna Sheinfeld,Juni Hoppe,Kathy Ehrensperger |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2024-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781978714564 |
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This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.
Religion and Sexism
Author | : Rosemary Radford Ruether |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1998-07-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781579101169 |
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These essays attempt to fill a growing need for a more exact idea of the role of religion, specifically in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, in shaping the traditional cultural images that have degraded and suppressed women. This book provides, in the compass of a single work, a glimpse of the history of the relationship of patriarchal religion to feminine imagery and to the actual psychic and social self-images of women.