Patriarchy and Religion: The Relationship Between Muslim Youth Attitudes Towards Patriarchal Power and Their Religious Commitment
This study aims to explain the relationship between patriarchy and religion. This relation was deduced from the literature of psychology, anthropology, sociology, religious writings and historical literatures related to patriarchy and religion. Patriarchy and religion are abstract variables and t...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/323/1/549563_T_FEM_2004_2.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study aims to explain the relationship between patriarchy and religion. This
relation was deduced from the literature of psychology, anthropology, sociology,
religious writings and historical literatures related to patriarchy and religion.
Patriarchy and religion are abstract variables and thus difficult to measure. The
relationship between them is also abstract. As such this study derived operational
variables to design measurable operational proposition. The variables are ‘patriarchal
power’(PP) and ‘religious commitment’ (RC), while the operational proposition is
“the relationship between Muslim youth attitudes towards patriarchal power and their
religious commitment’. Smelser’s social action theory was used to derive both
variables of the new proposition through design models of patriarchal social action
and Islamic social action.This study used the operational variables’ definitions to construct scales of youth
attitudes towards patriarchal power and youth religious commitment. The Likert
method was used to construct both scales. Both of them were deemed successful
according to the Likert method. Both scales were used to quantify the operational
variables and then to quantify the relationship between both of them. This method
provided feedback to understand the relationship between patriarchy and religion
because the operational proposition was derived from the abstract one.
The methodological approach of the field study used was analytic and descriptive
while the method was sampling social survey. The stratified sample was chosen
randomly. The unit of sampling was youth between 18-30 years old. Methodological
instrument was questionnaire consisting of general information concerning socio
cultural characteristics of the respondents and two scales, one for religious
commitment and another for patriarchal power.
Based on the results of T-test, regression and ANOVA, the main results of the field
study can be summarized as follows:
1) This study showed an arithmetic mean of the respondents in RC scale of
178.21 while the standard deviation was 23.403. The hypothetical mean of
the scale was 134 which was less than mean of the sample. The T–test value
between both means was 42.236. It was significantly above than the 0.05
level.2) This study stated that the arithmetic mean of the respondents in PP scale was
79.61 while the standard deviation was 14.53. The study showed a
hypothetical mean of 80 which is higher than mean of the sample. The T –test
value between both means was – 0.599. It was not significant at the 0.05
level.
3) The study showed a significant relationship between RC and PP. So the
operational proposition was significant in terms of the simple linear
Regression test where Beta coefficient is 0.387, which is significantly higher
than 0.0001 level.
4) The following results according to the hypotheses tested by the Univariate
ANOVA tests:
a) There are no significant differences between youth in their attitudes
towards patriarchal power in terms of the interaction between their
religious commitment levels and their gender, family background,
inhabitancy area, family type, religious commitment of the fathers and
parents educational levels.
b) There are significant differences between youths in their attitudes
towards patriarchal power in terms of the interaction between family type
and religious commitment levels at 0.09 where the F value is 2.418.
c) There are significant differences between youths in their attitudes
towards patriarchal power in terms of the interaction between educational levels of fathers and their religious commitment levels at 0.08 where the
F value is 1.604.
d) There are significant differences between youths in their attitudes
towards patriarchal power in terms of the interaction between family size
and religious commitment levels at 0.005 where the F value is 3.753.
The main conclusion of this study is that, there is positive relationship between
patriarchy and religion in Arabian Muslim society. This result supports the
assumption of some writers like Freud, Sharabi, Zieur, and Halim Barakat who
emphasized the relationship between patriarchy and religion. But the researcher
suspects that this relationship is decreasing because the Beta coefficient of the
relationship between religious commitment and patriarchal power is not very high. |
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