What Are Women's Religious Liberation?

Women’s Religious Liberation

From Mary Magdalene to Joan of Ark to the modern woman, women have come a long way, and many practices both subordinate and empower them. For centuries, women have been oppressed in religious texts “The New Testament of the bible, for example, urges women to be subordinate to their husbands…” (Pg. 246). They have long been stereotyped and placed in a position of inequality and submissiveness, as referenced many times in the Bible. (Pg. 246) Women have also be humiliated in the religious faiths and excluded from the work place. The women’s job was to be domesticated and “…the cultural ideology of the time defined the women’s world as being in the home” (Pg. 245). Many of the old fashion practices that women
The main focal group to have seen the rapid shift was the African American community. Through the power of religious believe and a determination to raise above sexism and inequality, women of the early 1950’s through the late 1960’s turned to faith and challenged the status quo. Religion has always played a great role in the liberation of women, especially on the public stage involving politics. Nearly half or 49% of mosques state that there is neither place nor purpose for religious congregations to involve themselves with social justice versus the 54 % of Christian congregations that maintain that it is their duty as servants of God to defend social equality. (Pg. 256) Despite the fact that religion and women’s involvement stands a contiguously contested issue, “…religion can serve as an “opiate” for the social protest” (Pg. 256) That is to say that religion has always been the ignition switch to an underling fire waiting to
Religion has always been one of the predominantly male dominated practices in virtually all societies. Nevertheless, over the centuries, due to abhorrent submissive practices and centuries of inferiority forced upon women, women have grown stronger and been able to remarkable stand toe to toe with their male counterparts. One point that stands to be true is that religion and a strong belief system has been a pivotal tool in the uniting of women across all religious boundaries. It can easily be stated that all religions have only blossomed and grown with a well-balanced fervor due to the influence of the women of whom a century ago would have been allowed nowhere near the temples of