This paper examines the correlation between socio-economic
factors and attitudes to the ordination of women in the Catholic Church against
a background of the existing literature on the perception of the Pastoral
Ministry of Christian women. The struggle to find theories of economics that
assist in formulating expectations in such research is identified and a
part-solution offered through the Sraffian account for innovation.
A survey was carried out on 110 postgraduate students at
the University of Granada (Spain) in 2006. The results demonstrate that the
perception of the Catholic Church as sexist is positively related to the gender,
political ideology and family size of those surveyed with discrimination
perceived to be more prevalent in non-Christian religions. Respondents with a
male image of God had less enlightened attitudes to gender equality and
believers took a more conservative approach to gender equality than
non-believers. Surprisingly, a conservative attitude to gender equality was
correlated with a favourable attitude to the ordination of women.
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