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Gender and religiosity (Statistics (religion is more important to them=…

- - - - Heelas & Woodhead- 80% of participants in the holistic mildew in Kendal were female
    - - Where men wish to achieve, women wish to feel
        
        New age: emphasises the importance of being 'authentic' .
  - - - Class differences in the types of religion that appeal to women
        
        These fit with other class differences
        
        Education - where the middle-class belief in the ability of individuals contrasts with working-class
      - Working-class women
        
        More attracted to the idea that give them a passive role
        
        Belief in an all-power God or fatalistic ideas
  - - - Women may experience a role conflict
        
        Between: Masculinised instrumental role (work) and their traditional expressive feminine role (family)
        
        Woodhead (2001) :silhouette:
        
        New age beliefs are are attractive - they appeal to a third sphere (individual sphere)
        
        Personal growth rather than role performance
        
        New age: bypass role conflict by creating a new identity for women
        
        Callum Brown (2009) :silhouette:
        
        New age 'self' religions attract women recruits because it appeals to womens' wish for autonomy
        
        However; women may be attracted to fundamentalism because of the certainties of the traditional gender role that prescribes for them
- - - - :silhouettes: Stark + Bainbridge
        
        People may participate in sects bcus they offer compensators for
        
        Orgasmic deprivation: stems from physical + mental health problems - women more likely to suffer ill health
        
        Ethical dep: Women tend to be more morally conservative - more likely to view 🌍on moral decline which sects share same view
        
        Social dep: secs attract poorer groups + women more likely to be poor
- - - - "pentecostal gender paradox"
  - - - church community encourages men to change their ways
        
        raising standard of living of women and children
    - - BUT is used to improve their situation
  - - - Church magazines and edu material encourage equal relations
- - - - less involvement in work
      - secularisation: driven religion out of male working sphere
      - confining religion to family sphere - womens concern
      - women join secular jobs in 1950s
        
        Callum Brown: 'decline of female piety"
    - - 1) religion encourages more values like caring for other
      - 2) mens withdrawal = more feminised churches
        
        woodhead :silhouette: : churches more attractive to women
        
        introduction of women priests in COE in 1994 and bishops in 2015
- - - - Caused a rejection in religion as whole because these roles are very prominent