The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion 2007
DOI: 10.4135/9781848607965.n28
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Gender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance

Abstract: Este artigo trabalha com a crescente influência dos estudos de gênero na Sociologia da Religião e faz uma síntese das principais publicações sobre o tema na literatura de língua inglesa. Mostra que a introdução de uma perspectiva de gênero tem efeitos essenciais, entre os quais podemos citar o questionamento do conceito de religião e as formas de religiosidade valorizadas, sobretudo aquelas nas quais os homens tem maior visibilidade e dispõem de um poder maior. Mas isto também implica uma adaptação dos métodos… Show more

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“…nonheteronormative men). Also, secularisation conceptualised as a decline of religious signifi cance in the lives of individuals is seen in a similar way (Razavi and Jenichen 2010;Woodhead 2007;Inglehart and Norris 2003). As documented by Inglehart and Norris, the declining religiosity related to the growing economic prosperity of societies and declining levels of insecurity correlates with greater social acceptance and practice of gender equality (Inglehart and Norris 2003).…”
Section: Gender and Religion -Multidimensional Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…nonheteronormative men). Also, secularisation conceptualised as a decline of religious signifi cance in the lives of individuals is seen in a similar way (Razavi and Jenichen 2010;Woodhead 2007;Inglehart and Norris 2003). As documented by Inglehart and Norris, the declining religiosity related to the growing economic prosperity of societies and declining levels of insecurity correlates with greater social acceptance and practice of gender equality (Inglehart and Norris 2003).…”
Section: Gender and Religion -Multidimensional Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Commentators largely agree that second wave feminism viewed religion as patriarchal and misogynistic. Hence many feminist women found it hard to remain within religious traditions (Furseth 2010;Mahlamäki 2012;Redfern and Aune 2013) which legitimated the oppression of and discrimination against women (Brewster 2013;Namazie 2009;Overall 2007;Woodhead 2006Woodhead , 2008. Some of the women I spoke to found the principles of the secular humanist movement more in tune with their sense that all be treated equally, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.…”
Section: Major Cultural Shiftsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relevance of gender-conscious epistemology that takes account of the multiple gender configurations of religious sociality is twofold: First, gender blindness persists and reaches far into central theoretical structures of the sociology of religion, namely the core areas of its modernisation and secularisation theories (Neitz 2003;Woodhead 2001Woodhead , 2007Woodhead , 2008. 6 This, secondly, includes a need for a deeper awareness of (still existing) tendencies to homogenise women and men as social categories, while the social differences in the lived reality within these categories that vary according to social origin, time and place are missed.…”
Section: Epistemological Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%