Perspectives Flashcards
Feminists patriarchal ideology
See patriarchal ideology in science and religion as legitimating gender inequalities
Pauline marks
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
Feminism -El saadawi-Davie
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
Feminism criticism -woodhead
Example hijab to demonstrate a form of feminism in religion - Muslim ladies have a choice
Functionalism
Religion provides a functional Role
- provides emotional support
- guidance- answers life questions
- gives security- heaven
Functionalism Durkheim
Key function of religion is to strengthen social solidarity
- totemism- sacred- created spirituality
Post modernists
Religion influence is deciding- contemporary society is based on individualism- free to pick and chose which parts of religion and spirituality best suits them
Post modernist - Grace Davies
Believing without belonging
Marxism
Views religion as reinforcing social conflict- through ideology
-legitimises the relation of capitalism
Marxism -Marx -Lenin
- 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,