RELIGST 1B06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ethnocentrism, Determinative

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 1B06
• Professor: Philippa Carter

Document Summary

Women and religion - oct 22: women often invisible in the cultural record, religious texts and their interpretations tend to be andocentric (male- centered, religious texts and their interpretations are ethnocentric, women"s religious experience is essentially subversive. Women must worship their husband as a god. 1 timothy 2:8-15 - women must not speak or have authority over a man, she must be silent, etc. The obverse ii: galatians 3:28 - there is no longer jew or greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for you are all one in. Endorsement of polygyny (says you can marry two or three or four women) in. Qur"an in hadith: the prophet intervened on behalf of his daughter, not allowing his son-in-law to take a second wife without divorcing his daughter first. (he himself had multiple wives) Most traditions teach that one"s biological sex is determinative of what constitutes the moral ideal.