Above, Christian pilgrims carry wooden crosses along the Via Dolorosa during the Good Friday procession on April 22, 2011, in Jerusalem, Israel. Examples of patriarchy in religious organisations: Although some religious organisations do have women in senior positions, they are certainly the exception rather than the rule, and in most cases this is the result of relatively recent reforms. Many religions emphasize or reinforce the idea of patriarchy as natural, as given to humans by a deity, and therefore women are to be subject to rule, domination, and ownership by men. Selecting holy texts from the world's religions for public meditation rooms, personal library, etc.. Patriarchal religion is interesting to men.

Religious feminist scholars have been unanimous in their view of the world's religions as the engines and regulators of patriarchal societies. Creating a list of the world’s oldest religions is not an easy task. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, all the cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests are men.

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Non-patriarchal religions tend to have a pantheon with several female and male deities, rather than a supreme or solitary matriarch goddess. The patriarchal religions tend to be the ones that are monotheistic, or that emphasize the male patriarch (generally variations of the Sun god) over the others. Patriarchal Religion. Most of the religious Western World (North America, Europe, and Oceania) follows this monotheistic religion based on the Bible.

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It was the radical, post-Christian feminist Mary Daly who, in her early books Beyond God the Father (1985) and Gyn/Ecology (1991), was to insist that the male God's transcendent power was the source of all female disempowerment. A glossary of religious terms: A list of books on religion and spirituality: Resources on religious beliefs and practices for chaplains, medical personnel, hospital personnel, and anyone else dealing with the public. Much of the knowledge of pre- historic religions have been derived from suppositions, archeological records, and other indirect sources that are subject to debate. The religious experience of humans predates written history.

That’s more like it. It teaches that God is a man, creator of rationality, slayer of evil men, protector of the innocent: Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.