Neitz, Mary Jo
1993 Inequality and Difference: Feminist Research in the Sociology of Religion. In: William H. Swatus Jr. (ed.), A Future for Religion? New Paradigms for Social Analysis. Newburg Park, etc.: SAGE. Pp 165-184.


[p165]
Religion an institution for social control of women, but also used for egalitarian treatment. --> ambivalent relationship feminism and religion.

Women, Ministry, and Oppression. (p165-166)

[p166]
topic of women in the ministry
'marginal women' effect change in the churches

[p167]
Pentecostal Women in the Ministry. (p167-169)

"distinguish between early days of the 'prophetic ministry' where women were instrumental in the founding of pentecostal churches, and the 'priestly era' that followed" in which women were denied acces to higher levels, like pastor.
[p168]
women who become pastor have a conflictive role, combining desires for leadership and subordination to god and mankind.
[p169]
Because of this conflictive role it's hard to work for gender equality

Catholic Feminists. (p169-170)

women used marginality to advocate changes in RC church.
- Canon law allowed women to participate in the public ministry
[p170]
- woman pastors identify themselves with the lay members, and in this way change the hierarchical structure of the RC Church.

Gendered Experience Within Abrahamic Religious Traditions. (p170-175)

Fundamentalist, Evangelical, and Pentecostal Women. (p170-172)

[p171]
why do women become member of these groups?
- certainty of traditional roles
[p172]
- gain from pro-family stance of these groups --> revision of traditional male roles

[p173]
Newly Orthodox Jewish Women. (p173-174)

[p173]
why join?
- finding a suitable partner
- alternative to western values of materialism
- chance to celebrate female 'spiritual' qualities

[p174]
Women in the Historically Black Churches. (p174-

[p175]
women important

Experiences of Women in the New Religious Movements. (p175)

Women-Centered Religious Groups and Practices. (p175-177)

[p176]
often small and unorganized.
[p177]
power not only to have someone else do something, but also gain legitimacy for one's own actions, etc.

New Directions for Research. (177-181)

important questions:
- where are the women in religions?
- how is any given experience gendered?

a model of the self connected to others,
[p178]
so behaviour is not something essential, but come out of a particular context.
"seperate self employs an 'ethic of rights' in making moral judgements, the relational self employs an 'ethic of care'."