Gender Perspectives (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

Emerged from women's movement, challenges traditional roles

Giving people tools to define, direct and decide their lives

Preventing/restricting participation in religious life

1590-1760

Approx. 40,000 people

Middle-aged woman, reclusive, single/widowed, midwife/healer

Civil courts, not churches

The Witches' Hammer - guided witch-hunting for 200 years

Forbade women from priesthood

Ordained first woman to full-time ministry

First Anglican female bishop

4th and 5th centuries

Gender-based exclusion with double standards for women

Exclusion 'is in accordance with God's plan'

Damaged message of love, contributed to declining membership