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Religion & Gender
Women, Compensators and Sects
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People participate in sects because they offer compensators for organismic, ethical and social deprivation.
Organismic: Women are more likely to suffer ill health and thus to seek the healing that sects offer.
Ethical: Women tend to be more morally conservative. They are thus more likely to regard the world as being in moral decline and be attract to sects, which often share this view.
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Paid Work
Bruce
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Religion is more confined to the private sphere of family and personal life which is the sphere that women are more concerned with.
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Due to men's withdrawal from religion meant that churches have gradually become more feminised spaces that emphasise women's concerns such as caring and relationships.
Women and the New Age
Women are more often associated with 'nature' and a healing role, they may be more attracted than men to New Age movements.
These movements often celebrate the 'natural' and involve cults of healing, which gives women a higher status and sense of self-worth.
Woodhead
Women are attracted to the 'individual sphere' which is concerned with individual autonomy and personal growth rather than gender role performance.
Risk, Socialisation and Roles
Miller & Hoffman
Men are less risk-averse than women, they are more likely to take the risk of not being religious.
Women are more religious because they are socialised to be passive, obedient, and caring. These qualities are most valued by religions.
Women's gender roles mean that they are more likely than men to work part-time or to be full-time carers, so they have more time to participate in religious activities.
Davie
Women are closer to birth and death and this brings them closer to 'ultimate' questions about the meaning of life that religion is concerned with.
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