Many feminists would say that godliness (like the family and the welfare state...) is another site of patriarchy. It is a place where women are oppressed by men, and it serves to reproduce this onerousness and spread it throughout the wider society. The Catholic perform is a positron emission tomography target. It is against womens rights such as contraception, abortion, and divorce. It is headed and run exclusively by men. beau ideal is seen in male terms; Jesus is a gentlemans gentleman; and although there is great respect for the Virgin Mary, she is hardly a useful role model for most women today. Islam has also been criticised on similar grounds. We will look at the practice of veiling, which galore(postnominal) feminists see as oppressive. Watsons qualitative research, on the other hand, tries to come on that veiling can be liberating for women. Further arguments against the feminist check of religion macrocosm always patriarchal include the Church of England, now accepting women priests; and the growth of some new ghostly movements which value femininity, such as Wicca and Earth Goddesses.
The key connect of functionalist writing on religion is the contribution that religion makes to the strong being of society, its contribution to social stability and, value-consensus. Durkheim argues that the function of apparitional ritual is to maintain social solidarity by affirming the moral favourable position of society over its individual members. Durkheim believed that social life could besides exist if values were shared and society integrated into a coherent whole.
Religion is an important aspect of this process, not except providing a set of unifying practices and beliefs, but also by providing a way in which people can show and give meaning to the world. Durkheims distinction between the sacred and blasphemous is, in effect, the distinction between people and society. For Durkheim the sacred...
The role of religion was shown all too clearly when Hitler used the churches to sanction his desolation of minorities, and Pope Pius not thinking it worth the effort to flabbergast the applecart by complaining about the 6 million being slaughtered. Useful to inciter social revolution,indeed.
Nevertheless, your critical analysis of a wide array of sources and academics is very impressive.
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