Perspectives Flashcards

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Feminists patriarchal ideology

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See patriarchal ideology in science and religion as legitimating gender inequalities

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Pauline marks

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Ideas from science have been used to exclude women from education. She quotes that educating females would lead to a creating of “a new race of i feminine female and disqualify women from their true vacation”- the nurturing of the next generation

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Feminism -El saadawi-Davie

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Reinforces male dominance
-one true god is always almost masculine - women are closer to life &death- child birth- more religious due to exposure to ultimate questions

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Feminism criticism -woodhead

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Example hijab to demonstrate a form of feminism in religion - Muslim ladies have a choice

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Functionalism

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Religion provides a functional Role

  • provides emotional support
  • guidance- answers life questions
  • gives security- heaven
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Functionalism Durkheim

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Key function of religion is to strengthen social solidarity

- totemism- sacred- created spirituality

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Post modernists

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Religion influence is deciding- contemporary society is based on individualism- free to pick and chose which parts of religion and spirituality best suits them

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Post modernist - Grace Davies

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Believing without belonging

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Marxism

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Views religion as reinforcing social conflict- through ideology
-legitimises the relation of capitalism

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Marxism -Marx -Lenin

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  • religion operates as an ideological weapon used by ruling class to legitimate the suffering of the poor
  • ‘spiritual fun’ to manipulate the wc by creating a ‘mystical fog’ that obscures reality,
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