Feminists can be Christians, too | Kristin Aune | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/29/feminists-christians
As a feminist and sociologist, my faith often surprises people. When I became a Christian as a teenager my mother said: “Intelligent people aren’t religious.”
Religious institutions have rightly attracted bad press for their record on women’s rights. Often, religion justifies women’s subordination by cloaking it in theological language, and teaches gender-differentiated roles to keep women dependent on men.
But this isn’t always so. #Religion also has a good record on social welfare and religious organisations have at times been in the vanguard of social change (for example, liberation theology in Latin America).