Investigations Quotes

Question 0

1948 declaration of human rights said…

Answer 0

You have the right not to be treated differently because of your race, religion, sex, political views or any other status

Question 1

Women given equal right to vote

Answer 1

1928

Question 2

The HRA has become…

Answer 2

Increasingly influential of British legislation

Question 3

The equality bill was…

Answer 3

Passed in 2010- protects working mothers and ensures equal pay for women

Question 4

What percentage of caring, leisure and services jobs are fulfilled by women?

Answer 4

82%

Question 5

What percentage of administrative and secretarial jobs are taken up by females?

Answer 5

77%

Question 6

Why might religious morals be separate from laws?

Answer 6

The American religious exemption clause exempts people from the law if their decisions are made for religious reasons. This is not widely used in Britain

Question 7

What year did the synod reject the move to allow women to become bishops?

Answer 7

2012

Question 8

How long has the church of England allowed woman priests?

Answer 8

20 years

Question 9

What did Rowan Williams say about the vote?

Answer 9

That the church had ‘lost a measure of credibility’

Question 10

What leads to a masculine interpretation of bible texts?

Answer 10

A patriarchal history within the church

Question 11

In which bible passage does Eve eat from the tree of knowledge?

Answer 11

Genesis 3:12

Question 12

What did Adam say about the act of eating the apple?

Answer 12

That woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate’

Question 13

How were Eve’s sins atoned for?

Answer 13

By the ‘shedding of blood with no remission’ I.e the death of christ

Question 14

Which three other old testament examples are given about sexism?

Answer 14

That menstruating women are ‘unclean’, rape victims must marry their rapists, and women are a ‘spoil of war’

Question 15

So it is no wonder that Richard Dawkins said…

Answer 15

God is ‘arguable the most unpleasant character in all fiction’

Question 16

What did Paul say about women

Answer 16

In 1 Timothy 2:12 he says ‘I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent’

Question 17

What pope said ‘women are and should be different from men’

Answer 17

John Paul ii in 2005

Question 18

What did Aristotle believe about women?

Answer 18

That they are infertile or castrated men- almost a rehearsal race before the creation of man. Women are less motivated and deceptive than men

Question 19

Who did Aristotles teachings influence and why was this important?

Answer 19

They influenced Thomas Aquinas, a thirteenth century philosopher whose ideas where associated closely with the church until the 60s and 70s

Question 20

What did Immanuel Kant believe were the criterion for rational beings?

Answer 20

Adult males of European ancestry

Question 21

Therefore what did Kant believe about women?

Answer 21

That they were not rational beings so therefore did not count as humans. They can only become human by marrying a man.

Question 22

What do feminist theologians argue?

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That masculine terms for God dominate the teachings and his manly qualities of strength and violence are placed above his compassionate feminine traits

Question 23

What are the three denominations of feminist theology?

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Rejectionists (such as Mary Daly, author of beyond God the father), reformists and loyalists

Question 24

What did Rose Hudson-Wilkin say about the bible

Answer 24

That it was ‘a particular interpretation borne out of experiences of men at that time. We are not there now’

Question 25

Who wrote a book in the gender-transcendent being Sophia?

Answer 25

Caitlin Matthews- Sophia: goddess of wisdom and bride of god

Question 26

In what two other religions does Sophia appear?

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Hinduism as Chokmah and polytheism as Athena

Question 27

What role does Sophia supposedly play in Christianity?

Answer 27

Some see her as the source of solomons wisdom, to others she is gods bride. In eastern orthodoxy she is often seen as the second element of the holy trinity

Question 28

What did daphne Hampson call religion?

Answer 28

It is ‘calculated to legitimise a patriarchal world and to enable men to find their way within it’

Question 29

Who was JSMs godson?

Answer 29

Bertrand Russell, friend of emmeline Pankhurst

Question 30

What ought sexism be replaced with according to JSM and his wife Harriet?

Answer 30

‘a principle of perfect equality’

Question 31

What are the three biblical arguments to suggest that the bible is not sexist?

Answer 31

‘there is neither slave nor free man,’… Mary Magdalene relationship, ‘love one another’

Question 32

What should the conclusion be?

Answer 32

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