A Feminist Approach To Studying The Persons Of Jesus And Gautama
Many differences are inherent in among the structures, paradigms, myths, and beliefs between the two major religions of Christianity and Buddhism; however, their greatest contrast can be marked between the revolutionary ideas of Jesus toward women and Siddhatta Gautama’s obvious distrust of the female gender. To the society of today’s modern world, it is almost appalling to say the least when one encounters the various world religions paradigms and yet typically notice a total lack of the feminine. In much of the Eastern World, the woman still faces incredible misogyny with covered faces, harems, and wives dominated by their husbands. The Western World sees female “liberation” but still has room for change. The Judeo-Christian deity is the male, omnipotent, and solitary deity, and though one may still see a church/reformed synagogue led by a female, these religions are almost exclusively sought out by, powered by, and financially run by men. The modern day Western philosophy has been thought out by men, its political systems, educational institutions, and scientific progress (at least by and large) are foundationally masculine. This then begs the question that since an ethos, created over 2000 years ago, has served a mascu
They became the property of men, were excluded from most professions, and were subjected to the sometimes-draconian control of their husbands in some of the ancient law code. Elite women managed to hold on to some shreds of power, but in the Axial countries women suffered a further loss of status at about the time that the Buddha was preaching in India (Buddha, p.155). Presently, we are in the processes of ecumenism between Buddhism and Christianity. Today’s world now sees a religion in Buddhism that has certain moved across the world and which is gaining converts to the tune of 1 billion of the population now presently owing its allegiance to it . Importantly, as for Christianity with the Catholic Church’s Vatican II, there are certain waves towards change and as always this is centered in a distinct American Buddhism: Most important is the word describing the cured woman’s immediate response: “and she began to serve” (diekone)….it is used by Jesus to describe the essence of discipleship: “If anyone wants to be first, he will be the last of all and the servant (diakonos) of all” (9:35)…the only person in the entire gospel to be described as “diakonos” is a woman (“Women Transformed: the ending of Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom,” p. 150) Action was the word of the day, so to speak, when it comes to understanding Jesus from a more modern worldview and Jesus’ actions showed his concern, his understanding, and his belief in women as equal to men and therefore deserving of attention, time, and care:
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