Gender and God's Word: Another Look at Religious Fundamentalism and Sexism

Peek, Charles W.; Lowe, George D.; Williams, L. Susan

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“…Moreover, several studies have shown that, in the general U.S. population, members of conservative Protestant denominations tend to embrace more patriarchal gender attitudes than adherents of other faith traditions (e.g., (Hoffmann and Miller 1997;Peek et al 1991)). This may partly explain why women from conservative Protestant denominations have lower levels of educational attainment, labor force participation, and earnings (Glass and Jacobs 2005;Lehrer 2009).…”

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Religion and Gender Ideologies among Working-Age U.S. Latinas/os

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Numerous studies have documented religious variations in gender ideology in the United States. Despite growth, diversification, and religious ferment among Latinas/os, few have investigated this topic within the Latina/o population. Drawing on insights from gender theory and prior empirical research, we develop several hypotheses regarding the links between religious affiliation, belief, and practice and three distinct domains of traditionalist gender ideology (respective beliefs in female domesticity, gender essentialism, and patriarchy) among U.S. Latinas/os. These hypotheses are tested using data from the Hispanic oversample of the National Survey of Religion and Family Life (NSRFL), a nationwide probability sample of working-age adults (ages 18-59). The results underscore the complex associations between multiple dimensions of religious involvement and specific facets of gender ideology among Latinas/os. Several promising directions for future research on this understudied population are outlined, and study limitations are identified.

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“…Religion affects parenting styles and relationships between parents and their children (Bartkowski and Ellison 1995;Ellison, Bartkowsi, and Segal 1996;Ellison and Sherkat 1993). There is also a strong relationship between religion and gender roles (Hertel and Hughes 1987;Peek, Lowe, and Williams 1991), including female educational attainment and labor force participation (Lehrer 1995;Sherkat 2000). As a result, religion is likely to affect occupational advancement, income, other financial benefits, the availability of funds to save, and ultimately wealth ownership.…”

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Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty

Keister

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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The association between cultural orientation and material outcomes is fundamental to sociology research. This article contributes to the understanding of this relationship by exploring how religious affiliation affects wealth ownership for conservative Protestants (CPs). The results demonstrate that religion affects wealth indirectly through educational attainment, fertility, and female labor force participation. The results also provide evidence of a direct effect of religion on wealth. Low rates of asset accumulation and unique economic values combine to reduce CP wealth beyond the effects of demographics. The findings improve understanding of the relationship between religious beliefs and inequality.Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. (Prov. 3:9-10) It would not be at all strange, therefore, if from these [Biblical] teachings and facts men should have concluded that the pursuit of wealth was unchristian and wealth itself an evil rather than a good. (Mathews 1896, p. 774) The relationship between cultural orientation and material well-being is central to research in sociology, and concern about this relationship has fueled decades of intense debate regarding the material consequences of religious values (Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Featherman

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“…Some recent research has been conducted on religious affiliation and material gender inequality (Reitz et al 2015), but the previous literature has typically used individual-level religious beliefs and practices to predict individual attitudes. Religious affiliation is associated with gender attitudes (Schnabel Forthcoming;Bolzendahl and Myers 2004;Brooks and Bolzendahl 2004), and some religious beliefs are associated with sexism (Burn and Busso 2005;Peek et al 1991). The relationships between affiliation and individual religiosity and gender attitudes are certainly important, but what about macro forces and material equality?…”

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Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

Schnabel

2015

Soc Indic Res

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Does religion help or hinder gender equality worldwide? Are some major world religions more conducive to equality than others? This study answers these questions using country-level data assembled from multiple sources. Much of the research on religion and gender has focused on the relationship between individual religious belief and practice and gender attitudes. This study, alternatively, compares the macro effects of the proportion of religious adherents in a country on two indicators of material gender equality: the United Nations Gender Inequality Index and the Social Watch Gender Equity Index. Comparing the world's four largest religious groups reveals that the largest distinction is not between any of the three largest faiths-Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism-but between the religious and the non-religious. The more non-religious people in a country, the more gender equal that country tends to be. This finding holds when accounting for human development and other country-level factors, as well as in instrumental variable analysis.

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Gender and God's Word: Another Look at Religious Fundamentalism and Sexism

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Cited by 98 publications

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Religion and Gender Ideologies among Working-Age U.S. Latinas/os

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Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty

Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

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