Women and Religious Traditions

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Women and Religious Traditions
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1WOMEN AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
1. Women’s relationship with organized religions:
 Diversity (spectrum), as described by all the experts in the video, is a spectrum
on which one side is where religions are seeing to actively involve women in
their religious practices and the other end of the spectrum is where women are
being oppressed in religious practices just because they are not male figures.
2. Patriarchy:
 Definition: Patriarchy is entirely a social order or a page of instructions that
places more value on men, and are granted more authority than females.
 Role of Patriarchy in Religion: Patriarchy is usually considered the natural
order of things, in a way that it is said that this is what God had wanted for
humans. There are many women who follow the faith but the institution of
patriarchy calls for a degeneration of the role of women. Patriarchy has also
caused a hierarchy within the women where some women who are associated
with men from higher roles receive better treatment then the ones who are not.
3. Evaluating difficult verses and texts in holy books:
 When evaluating difficult texts from holy books and scriptures, it is important
to view the unclear passages through the lens of the clear passages. This is to
say that if a scripture is difficult or is seemingly oppressive to women, it is
important to keep in mind the scriptures that say the total opposite.
 Elizabeth Wordsworth was running a college in Oxford but she also agreed
with the fact that women should not vote. This is an example of a woman
following religious texts and not understanding her position in it.
 Eve was expressed as an evil temptress but in recent times, she has been
expressed in different ways. It is important to rewrite concepts of history in the
context of recent times.