Evangelical Gender Ideology A View from Christianity Today Readers

Abstract Recent research on evangelicals has lead to the conclusion that they are relying upon patriarchal gender ideologies, specifically the male breadwinner and female domestic family, as identity markers to distinguish themselves from others in mainstream America. The evidence from this study supports this notion in that (a) three gender ideology scales constructed of attitudinal items either maintain high levels of or demonstrate increases in the adoption of patriarchal gender ideologies in theology, women's roles in the church, and women's roles in the workforce, and (b) identity boundary maintenance concerns familial roles, specifically gender ideology

Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 45, No. 01

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Changing Sex Roles: A Case of Reality Reconstruction

The traditional culturally prescribed male/female dichotomy has resulted in the formation of distinct male/female subcultures with differing views of social reality.Recent equalitarian movements have proposed beliefs and values challenging this dual view of reality. The sex role confusion resulting from this challenge is the current concern of two competing ideologies, one of which is attempting to restore the traditional sex role dichotomy, and the other which is demanding a destruction of the traditional dichotomy. Since a worldview is built up through a dialectical process relating ideas and experience, and sense experiences in the major American social institutions appear to be moving more and more towards the dichotomization, it is unlikely that reactionary social movements can succeed in the long run. Formerly exclusive male and female categories, which are now breaking down, will continue to become more and more inclusive of one another, thus resulting in a synthesized, reconstructed view of reality

Empiricism, Symbolic Realism, and the Mystique of the Extreme

The purpose of this paper is to point out the false dichotomy that exists in sociological thinking in general, and in the sociology of religion in particular, between objective and subjective methods and data. A kind of mystique surrounds the perceived dichotomy between quantitative and qualitative approaches, epitomized in the sociology of religion by the work of Charles Glock in contrast to that of Robert Bellah. This extremist mystique clouds perception and prevents recognition of the complementary, not merely cooperative, relationship that must exist between empiricism and symbolic realism