Women In Christianity

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What is The Role of Women in Christianity?

Christianity is one of the most popular religion in the world (BBC.2015). Therefore, in this chapter will be first explore the role of women in the perspective of Christians who believe in Christianity, which data will be collected from primary research and also in secondary research. Furthermore, the personal and religious value will be covered according to data collected from research. Lastly, The Role of Women: In Christianity will be explored from a social and cultural perspective.

Christianity is the biggest religion in the world, with almost 2.1 billion followers around the world (BBC.2015). Christianity is the religion based on the teachings or its beliefs and practices of Jesus Christ who …show more content…

From the Hadith "Heaven is under the mother's foot" - Prophet Muhammad. Our Prophet Mohammad treated all his wives equally. He sews his shoes, he does housework, he speaks with gentleness not any harsh word from him. He respected all his wives and he is the best in his character.
3. Islam is a religion that promotes women, from Khadija (one of the wives of the prophet Muhammad) being a successful business woman and Aisha (one of the wives of the prophet Muhammad) being a great scholar. The first university in the world was founded by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri and there are many famous mystics which is Rabia Basri (Prof. 'Abdul Rahman I. Doi, 2009).
Based on these religious Islamic view to the role of women, although Islam promotes women, the modern society in general does not promote women and they have to work even harder to succeed than men, regardless of religion. Yet there are still many Muslim Women from many different countries working in science, technology and all different aspects doing their …show more content…

In the first two chapters, there are more personal or family related research about the role of women in the religion of Christianity and Islam. In this chapter, will examine the role of women at a macro-level perspective which is the culture level. First of all, culture can be defined as the element which happen to develop and connect the values, beliefs and many other parts together to be a society (T.S. Eliot, 2010). Therefore, this chapter will discuss the role of women in Christianity and Islam, under the context of cultures and the affection to the religion.

one fourth of the respondents who answered the questionnaire chose the answer of No in question “By assumption, if your holy scripture suggests men are superior to women, do you still think men and women should be equal in society?”, it raises a question that the holy scripture had got a kind of power or authority that automatically makes people do and believe what it says, that means some people might not think about the reason behind what is said in scriptures but merely doing what it says. On the opposite hand, that could means people are also being leading by the culture that the cultural influences affect how people practice their religion which also affects the role of women in religions. (John L. Esposito,

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