Religion & Patriarchal Subjugation of Women

The purpose of this research is to examine the concept of patriarchal subjugation of women in the light of the evolution of the idea of religion, and to evaluate, with reference to evidence of such concept, the manifestation of the concept in the modern period. The plan of the research will be to set forth nascent or primitive religious concepts that illustrate a prepatriarchal and presubjugation religious ethos, and then to discuss the content and impact of myths that appear to have evolved in a way that either prefigured or declared a patriarchal religious idea that was a significant and decisive departure from primitive religious forms, as well as the manifestation of the postmythical residue of the shift in religious consciousness in the ontemporary world. Finally, as appropriate, reference will be made to the possibility of the emergence and development of a postpatriarchal, postsubjugation religious ethos that may either derive or depart from the patriarchal religious tradition on one hand, or return to the religious or spiritual ethos of prepatriarchy on the other.

The fact of a patriarchal religious ethos may be described as a fundamental of the contemporary culture around the world. Various liberation movements by or on behalf of women may have appeared and may have achieved success in certain segments of that culture, but in this period of the socalled global village, where socalled primitive and industrial cultures frequently intersect, the vast wei

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cated selfconsciousness (Eliade, 1954). This is a source of spiritual regret to those who might hold to the superiority of the matriarchal, nurturant cosmos, and the evidence of the moral and ethical corruption of the patriarchy is abundant. But as Wilber explains, it is extremely important that, in throwing out the bath water of sexism, we do not throw out the baby of actual transformation with it. The truth concealed in the patriarchy, however otherwise entrapped, was the higher order self known as the mental ego, characterized by self consciousness, nd established by a truly evolutionary mutation in consciousness. And it is this truth we must eventually celebrate, even as we redress its imbalances (Wilber, 1986, p. 237). To put it another way, the spiritual problem associated with patriarchal religion is not spiritual at all but rather the social and cultural manifestation of transformed religious ideas. On this view, the social patriarchypriesthood, nationstate, pater familias, warrior, and the restcan be said to have put to social and political uses the implications embedded into spiritual experience on one hand and an increasingly sophisticated soc

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