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

Page, Sarah-Jane; Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck

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Sarah-Jane Page

Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip



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.

Citation

Page, S., & Yip, A. K. (2017). Gender equality and religion: a multi-faith exploration of young adults’ narratives. European Journal of Women's Studies, 24(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506815625906

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 23, 2015
Online Publication Date Feb 17, 2016
Publication Date Aug 1, 2017
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal European Journal of Women’s Studies
Print ISSN 1350-5068
Electronic ISSN 1461-7420
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 3
Pages 249-265
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506815625906
Keywords Agency, Division of labour, Gender equality, Religious stigmatization, Women’s religious
leadership
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/875799
Publisher URL http://ejw.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/21/1350506815625906
Additional Information Copyright Sage Publications 2016

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