a follow up to the article i posted last week. worth a thought, is this why men generally either don't go to church or don't engage in church. the worrying statistic is Christianity is the only major faith that has this issue!
by BRETT & KATE MCKAY by BRETT & KATE MCKAY Welcome back to our series on the relationship between Christianity and masculinity, which aims to explore the historical and cultural factors that have made women statistically more likely to be committed to the religion than men. In our last post, we weighed one of the more popular explanations for this gender gap: that the theology, story, and ethos of the Christian gospel was intrinsically feminine from the start, and thus naturally attracts more female than male adherents. We ultimately dismissed this theory by showing that it’s possible to see both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine traits in the religion. The fact that the softer, gentler side of Christianity has long been emphasized over its harder qualities, then suggests that factors above and beyond the faith’s intrinsic narrative and theology led to one side being privileged over the other. Today we will explore theories as to what exactly those “feminizing” factors were, beginning with a discussion of when exactly they may have emerged. 3 Notes Before We Begin
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Brett and Kate McKay | August 1, 2016
Attend a Christian church service anywhere in the world this Sunday and take a look around at who’s sitting in the seats. What will you see? Almost certainly, more women than men. Women with husbands and families, but also married women attending without their husbands, widowed women, and single women, both young and old. You likely won’t see any husbands who are attending without their wives, or very many single guys. |
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