RELIGION AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
RELIGION AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Author(s): Milovan R. Subotić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Civil Society, Victimology, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: religion; women’s rights; equality; violence; misogyny
Summary/Abstract: The development of monotheism as an essential idea of one God is, in principle, valued as a step of humankind towards an abstract way of thinking. This process had been developing under the strong jurisdiction of patriarchy, and the subordinate role of woman is thus visibly reflected in the core of major monotheistic religions – Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The topic of this paper deals with the position of woman in the world’s contemporary major monotheistic religions. The contradiction of this topic is reflected in the fact that women are subordinated in major monotheistic religions of the contemporary world and yet, it can be argued, with considerable certainty, that women are more religious beings than men, a theme which will also be elaborated.

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