SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gnosticism
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Monotheism: based on the personification of a singular male god. Denies women divinity and spiritual equality due to a lack of holiness; subordinates to men. Gnosticism: banished gospels practiced heretical texts banned from the bible. Suppression of sexuality in the name of god. Policing and adornment of the body along gender lines. Creolization: colonization where people of indigenous, african, and european people mix together and form new identities and cultural forms. The feminine face of afro-catholicism in new orleans. Pious african american women pledged to the corporal and spiritual care of the city"s enslaved and free women of color. Enslaved women became slave baptisands; next generation men dominated religious control, then during creolization men/women became godparents; finally marked black women"s role in religious instruction. Many more female slaves were baptized than male. Women of african descent mingle w/ french and catholicism. Agency and the preservation of african cultural value.
