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
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