Gender roles and Popular religions
Religion has been around almost since the beginning of man. It has served two main purposes for men and women. Religion is a means of explaining what cannot be understood as well as a service to guide the behavior of those who follow it. In particular, Religion can serve to give guidelines for different gender roles in a community. While all religions are very different, they can be broken up into three categories: Those that encourage natural gender roles that stem from evolution, those that seek to control these natural gender roles, and those in between. Religions that appear to encourage the gender roles that have resulted from evolution tend to favor the male species. The female’s sexuality is controlled by males, or even by society. Males tend to be polygynous. On the other hand, those religions that appear to want to control natural gender roles tend to have more of an equality between men and women, or even, favor women. Also, monogamy is the social norm. While most modern religions tend to be a little of both, those that encourage natural gender roles tend to be more fundamental in belief while those that seek to control these natural tendencies tend to be more modern (or “western”).
This idea of a submissive woman shows very much through the ritual of marriage. This “sacrifice” as Catholics call it is very oppressive to women: “(it) admonishes the women to be ‘obedient to her husband’ and to the man ‘to love his wife’ shows the unequal status of women in the so-called parnership” (Ahmed 61). The success of the marriage rests upon the shoulders of the woman, not the man. She is in charge of keeping the man faithful and out of trouble. If he sins, it is her fault. Along with requiring the woman to be submissive and serving to her husband, the church also controls the woman’s reproductive rights by outlawing contraception and abortion. These laws give the woman very limited possibilities of fertility control, leaving most of the control to the male just as in primates.
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