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Sociology- religious membership = gender - Coggle Diagram
Sociology- religious membership = gender
GENDER
Davie 2013
gender differences exist in practice, belief, self identification and private prayer
reasons for differenecs
risk:
miller + Hoffman = women less likely to take risk of being condemned to hell
davie = fewer childbirth risks = less chance of dying = less religious
socialisation
women more attracted to religions as it values qualities
roles
miller + Hoffman = women have more time to participate s they only work half time
life and death:
Davie 2013 = women closer to birth and death so relate to life big questions which religion tries to answer
PAID WORK
Bruce 2011
women = low level of involvement in paid work
religion has becomes privatised and mens religiosity has declined more quickly
Brown 2009
'decline of female piety'
women increasingly involved in paid work = decline in religiosity
still more attractive to women=
strong affirming with values such as caring for others
churches becomes feminised because of mens withdrawal
WOMEN AND THE NEW AGE
achieving vs feeling
bruce 2011= women experience of child rearing = less aggressive + goal orientated
authenticity
authentic not acting out roles= attractive to women who find gender roles restrictive
individual sphere
woodhead 2002 = concerned with autonomy and personal growth -> bypass conflict women experince through preforming instrumental role
class difference
bruce 2011= autonomy and self development attract to WC women
COMPENSATORS AND SECTS
stark and Bainbridge = religious market theory
reasons for more involvement in religious practies
organismic = physical and mental health problems = more likely to be women
social= lack of power, prestige and status= more likely to be women than men
ethical = women more morally conservative and more likely to see world as in delcine
DECLINING PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN
aune et all 2008 = increase in women separation from the church
women movement and feminism = questioned roles, churches views seen as outdated
changing roles= increased particiaption in employment
changes in families = going diversity = disapproved by churches