In many religious heirchies,
women are mostly excluded from power. It is very clear in Christianity but it
is also characteristic of all the major religion. Christianity is a male affair
in its symbolism while Mary the mother of Jesus may sometimes being treated as
if she had divined. God is the father a male figural and Jesus took the human
shape a man. Woman is depicted as created from rib taken from man. There
are many female figures in the
Bible and some depicted as bravely however the
prime a parts are reserve for male. There is not
female equal to Moses. In the New Testament all the apostles are men.
These facts have not gone unnoticed
by those and most in woman’s movement in 1895 Elizabeth Cady published a serious
of commentary on the scripture in title of the woman Bible. In her view, God
had created women and men as beings of equal value and the Bible should fully
reflect this fact its masculine character she believed reflected not the authentic view of God but the fact that was
written by men in 1870. The Church of England had established a committee to do
what have been done many times before reproves and update the Biblical text. As
she pointed out the committee contains not a single woman. She is asserted that
there is no reason to support that God is male since it was clear in the
scripture that all human beings were fashioned in the image of God.
Female deities are quite often
found in religions across the world. These are sometime thought of as womanly
gentle and loving in the other instances goodness appears as fearful destroyers
woman worrier-gods are found fairly often ever though in actual social life
women are only very occasionally military leaders. Now wide-ranging study of
the symbolic and material environment of women in difference religion has yet
being undertaken but there are seeing to be a few if any religion in which
females are the dominant figures either symbolically as religions authority.
Sub-topic-
Roles of woman in religion
In Buddhism females appear as
important figures in the teaching of some Buddhist order. In Mahāyana Buddhism
women are represented in a particularly favorable life. However, on the whole
Buddhism what is evident is that it is a male created institution dominated by a
various power structure in which the famine is mostly associated with the
secular, powerless, profane and imperfect contracting pictures of woman appear
in the Buddhist text mirroring not doubt the attitude of man to all women in
the secular world. On the one hand females appear as wise maternal and gentle on
the other as mysterious polluting and destructive threatening evil.
In the Buddhism woman have
traditional been allowed a role as nun which has also being the main avenue for
the direct expressing of female religious convection within Christianity. The monastic life, derives from the practices
of very early christen groups who lived a life of extreme power given over to meditation this
individual and roles sometimes have a few connection with this established
church but by the early Middle age the church had managed to gain control of
most of the order they had founded monastery became fixed building with the
image bound to the authority system of the Catholic church.
Some of the most influential male monastic order was
founded in the 12th century, the same era as the Crusades military
expectation to recover the holy land from the Muslim. The majority of woman’s order
was not established until some two centuries later. Their membership remained
relatively small. Many women at this time became nuns partly because of the
career which was there by opened up to them in teaching and nursing. Since these
occupations were controlled by the religion order as professions became separated
from the church the proportion of women in the orders full.
Although the ritual and observances of difference
orders vary all nuns are regarded as brides of Christ. Until changes were made
in some of the order in the 20th century. Sometimes, Marriage
ceremonies were carried out during the cost of which the novice could cut her
hair received religious name and be given wedding ring. A novice is free to
leave or can be dismissed.
Woman’s orders today show considerable diversity in
their beliefs and modes life. I, some convent sister dress in full traditional
habit. Other communities by contrasted are not only houses in modern building but
have dropped many of the old regulation; the sister’s wearing ordinary dress. Restrictions
on talking to other and certain periods of the day having relaxed together with
the rules about the position of the body, such as walking with hands folded and
hidden under the habit.
May you be health and wealth.
