Timeline for Did ancient and/or medieval cultures that emphasized the danger of religious pollution also exert more control over women?
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| Mar 1 at 2:52 | comment | added | Brian Z | Voting to close... It's unfortunate that there's no SE for anthropology questions but that's very much what this is. | |
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| Mar 12, 2018 at 13:35 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Too broad. (Though it's a fascinating question for research and possibly a book or journal article). I'd suggest refining the scope to ask about one or two. | |
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 2:28 | answer | added | ichorallemande | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 19:21 | comment | added | Random | @Semaphore: Good idea, I'll see about adding some in a few hours when I next have time to sit down at a computer. | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | Semaphore | @Era It's an interesting question, but I fear it may be too broad for me to handle, since I would expect an answer to compare multiple cultures in order to determine whether there's a trend. One difficulty I see is trying to determine what counts as being concerned with religious pollution. Do you have examples of cultures that are not concerned, other than China? | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Random | @Semaphore: That's a distinction I can definitely appreciate, and it could make the core of a very good answer if you have time and inclination. Thanks either way. | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 16:48 | comment | added | Semaphore | @Era The reason I said that is in Shintoism, pollution are easily cleansed with ritual purification. Whereas my impression with Confucianism is that moral impurity is a more or less permanent stain on one's soul. On reflection, I'm not sure to what extent Confucianism qualifies as having religious pollution. But actually, I would suggest it's not an emphasis on pollution per se, but rather what kind of things held to cause pollution, that correlates with treatment of women. | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | TheHonRose | Just a comment, but you don't mention traditional Judaism, where menstruating women were considered unclean, women were only allowed in the outer court of the Great Temple, and (even now in the traditional branch) cannot remarry without a get from her husband - amongst other disabilities. | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 2:04 | answer | added | John Dee | timeline score: -3 | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 1:02 | comment | added | Random | It might also be a useful approach to consider historical developments within a particular society. Taking the Chinese example, if Chinese culture showed a greater religious occupation with religious/spiritual notions of purity around the time footbinding took off, that might be taken for evidence. If such developments were consistently unconnected it might be evidence against. | |
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