{"id":1533,"date":"2013-03-09T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/religion-has-a-woman-problem.html"},"modified":"2013-03-09T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:56:00","slug":"religion-has-a-woman-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/religion-has-a-woman-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion has a Woman Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We often ask whether religion is good for women but I think it\u2019s just as interesting to ask \u201care women good for religion?\u201d I am not sure they are at the moment.\u00a0<\/span>Here\u2019s what\u2019s been happening: women have been wanting greater roles, more leadership, greater participation and at the same time that has actually been becoming harder for them to do \u2013leaving us with a bit of a crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Women have always been interested in religion and been extremely active in religion; in fact they\u2019ve been central to all the world\u2019s religions. Historically women have been able to play very significant roles in religion. Nuns, for example, in the Christian tradition had huge power at certain times in history, acting as very independent groups doing their own thing without a great deal of clerical control.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
And women around the world have always been central in all religions. That\u2019s partly because women have always had a huge stake in developing their relationship with the divine, in getting closer to God, to what they see as the most true, the most beautiful, the most powerful; but also because women deal with the real everyday important issues of life and survival \u2013with birth, with life, with marriage, with issues around illness and well being and of course death.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We often ask whether religion is good for women but I think it\u2019s just as interesting to ask \u201care women good for religion?\u201d I am not sure they are at the moment.\u00a0Here\u2019s what\u2019s been happening: women have been wanting greater roles, more leadership, greater participation and at the same time that has actually been becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nReligion has a Woman Problem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We often ask whether religion is good for women but I think it\u2019s just as interesting to ask \u201care women good for religion?\u201d I am not sure they are at the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/religion-has-a-woman-problem.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religion has a Woman Problem\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We often ask whether religion is good for women but I think it\u2019s just as interesting to ask \u201care women good for religion?\u201d I am not sure they are at the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/religion-has-a-woman-problem.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-09T15:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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