Heike I found what you said interesting. But your sentences are quite
complex and convuluted so I cannot properly grasp what you say.
Could you possibly repeat this, using short easy sentences? I'd very much
appreciate it.
Shan Jayran
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> >I definitely feel that the study of gender in religion is a paradigm
shift.
> >Since the 1st millineum BCE, religion has explained to people why life on
> >earth is so miserable, and offered them a way out -- whether an
afterlife,
> >reincarnation, or whatever. And one of the features of this misery is the
> >domination, abuse, and mistreatment of women. Thus, religion has helped
to
> >rationalize and justify male supremacy.
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> While this is a justified view (or actually a flurry of understandment,
> given a tradition of civilizational critiques starting with the Neolithic
> Revolution or even the emergence of a so-called delayed return paradigm),
> the problem is how that, as long as working within a framework of
> Comparative Religion (which one, of course, can leave), can go together
> with its self-understanding as a descriptive discipline rather than an
> ideology critique.
>
> Best,
>
> Heike
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