Religious fundamentalism
And why does the mother of the divine child have to be a virgin?
Abstract
An approach is made to the relationship of control that exists between religion and women's lives, in this case, from a contextualization of the religious fundamentalist movement and women's suffrage movements. It is analyzed how theology has articulated and justified biological and social differences between men and women, and how in reality these differences hide unequal relationships. Thus, the virginity of Mary becomes a religious value that maintains control over the body of women because it justifies their concealment, confinement, chastity always for the benefit of some men. This text tries to be a verifier to understand how a theological argument is constituted in a social and political argument.
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