Kristin Aune
Christian University Students’ Attitudes to Gender: Constructing Everyday Theologies in a Post-Feminist Climate
Aune, Kristin; Guest, Mathew
Abstract
This article explores how religion shapes approaches to gender amongst university students in the United Kingdom, focusing on how attitudes about gender interact with their Christian identities. Drawing from 68 semi-structured interviews conducted at five universities, the article identifies three main approaches Christian students adopt when asked how faith affects their views on gender: the individualized approach, the egalitarian approach and the conservative approach. The article outlines the permutations of these approaches, showing their points of similarity and difference, and argues that feminism, biological essentialism and notions of reasonableness or “cultural common sense” feature in all three, being integral to the gender discourse of “post-feminist” UK society. The article argues that religion functions as a resource in Christian students’ gender attitudes, alongside other resources such as friends or family, and is deployed to justify both egalitarianism and gender conservatism. Christian students are constructing “everyday theologies” that integrate religious resources with other social resources, generating divergent egalitarian and conservative interpretations, mirroring patterns in “post-feminist” UK society more generally.
Citation
Aune, K., & Guest, M. (2019). Christian University Students’ Attitudes to Gender: Constructing Everyday Theologies in a Post-Feminist Climate. Religions, 10(2), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020133
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 18, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 23, 2019 |
Publication Date | Feb 23, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Feb 25, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 26, 2019 |
Journal | Religions |
Electronic ISSN | 2077-1444 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | 133 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020133 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1302363 |
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