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6 - The economy and women's religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
Summary
Introduction
Many historians, rather more than sociologists or anthropologists, have suggested links between the economic and the religious. The nature and direction of such proposed links have varied considerably, and it must be said that little consensus exists. For its part, demography is founded to a considerable extent on links to the economy. Countless population indicators are affected by economic fortunes. Moreover, with structural economic change, such as where industrialisation overtakes agrarian-based commercial society, or where heavy industry is superseded by the tertiary sector, employability often alters differentially for men and women with likely impacts on marriage and birth. We have seen in previous chapters that links existed between religion and demography which, in the turmoil generated by the long sixties, made plain women's key position in decisionmaking in regard to sexual relations and the family. The transformation of the sixties extended to women's relationship to the economy, education and employment. If religion and demography were related through female choice, was the economy a third side in a triangle of change?
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- Religion and the Demographic RevolutionWomen and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s, pp. 217 - 251Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012