Gender equality and religion:a multi-faith exploration of young adults’ narratives

Abstract

This paper presents findings from research on young adults in the UK from diverse religious backgrounds. Utilizing questionnaires, interviews, and video diaries it assesses how religious young adults understood and managed the tensions in popular discourse between gender equality as an enshrined value and aspirational narrative, and religion as purportedly instituting gender inequality. We show that, despite varied understandings, and the ambivalence and tension in managing ideal and practice, participants of different religious traditions and genders were committed to gender equality. Thus, they viewed gender-unequal practices within their religious cultures as an aberration from the essence of religion. In this way, they firmly rejected the dominant discourse that religion is inherently antithetical to gender equality.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506815625906
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
Additional Information: The final, definitive version of this paper will be published in European Journal of Women's Studies, 2016 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © Page, S-J & Yip, AK-T Funding: Arts & Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council under the Religion and Society Programme (Award no. AH/G014051/1).
Uncontrolled Keywords: gender equality,division of labour,women’s religious leadership,religious stigmatization,agency,Gender Studies,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Publication ISSN: 1461-7420
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:12
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2016 08:38
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-08-01
Published Online Date: 2016-02-17
Accepted Date: 2016-02-01
Authors: Page, Sarah-Jane (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-6879-536X)
Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck

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