Feminist views of religion

Question 1

Who are the 3 feminists?

Answer 1

• Mary Daly
• Simmone De Bevoiur
• Karen Armstrong

Question 2

Mary Daly

Answer 2

• religion maintains patriarchy
• e.g restricting their access to leadership roles, portraying God as a man
• as it was men who determined what was included in the bible, they were able to control the narrative
• there cannot be equality within religion until people admit the chance that God could be a women

Question 3

Simone De Beuvouir

Answer 3

• Religion tricks women into thinking their equal to men through the eyes of God
• They will be rewarded for their suffering in the afterlife
• girls are socialized into worshiping a male God, therefore encouraged to see males as superior

Question 4

simmone de beuvoir’s example

Answer 4

• women are not allowed to read or even touch the sacred texts in their menstruating period

Question 5

Kate Armstrong

Answer 5

• women are blocked from reaching the top of churches
• this was shown when she studied the church of England
• This caused her to develop the idea of ‘stained glass ceiling’ in that women are prevented from reaching the top of the hierarchy

Question 6

Stained glass ceiling- Karen Armstrong

Answer 6

• women being blocked from reaching the top sections of churches represents how they are blocked from reaching the top of the hierarchy