Religion, statut social et identité féminine / Religion, Social Status and Feminine Identity

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ID3786022
AuthorsRoland Campiche
Year1996
Volume95
Issue1
Pages69-94
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchives de sciences sociales des religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0335-5985 • E-ISSN: 1777-5825
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/assr.1996.1037
OpenAlexW2074792795
LanguageFR
Citations received9

Numerous studies highlight the fact that men and women coming from similar social backgrounds tend to have similar religious attitudes and behavior. This fact puts into question the claim that women have a priviledged relationship - usually described with negative overtones - with religion. However, a thorough study of available data raises questions about the linear nature of the homogeneization of religious attitudes according to gender. Indeed, among existing religious measures there are small but recurrent discrepencies, in particular in the fields of the transmission of a religious tradition and of the individual recomposition of religion. Men and women have varying attitudes that illustrate the persistence of a difference linked to gender. It is therefore necessary to study closely the process of socialization according to gender and its effects on the construction of a feminine identity. In these fields, comparative studies higlight a contrasted evolution according to gender, which influences the very concept of equality. They allow us to illustrate two processes of adaptation to modernity which are part of social and cultural changes. Religion thus seems ambivalent. On the one hand by reinforcing the traditional woman/mother model, it proves to be resilient to modernity; on the other hand, as an available ressource it may favor the search for original solutions to confront/manage modernity, in particular for women

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Epistemology · Modernity · Religiosity · Religious identity · Social group · Social identity theory · Socialization · Sociology · Gender Studies · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology

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