{"id":19225,"date":"2013-06-11T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=19225"},"modified":"2013-06-09T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:54:45","slug":"religion-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/religion-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19226 alignleft\" alt=\"Gender\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gender.png\" width=\"146\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gender.png 1600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gender-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gender-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gender-1024x1024.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/>I was recently having a conversation with some friends and the subject of religion and gender came up.\u00a0It is a common conception that the practice of religion is generally stronger among women rather than men.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that, in my experience, it has been the complete opposite. When I was back in England the prayer group and young adult group that I attended was predominantly male. The Bible study group I led here in the States was also predominantly male.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested to hear your own experiences.\u00a0<em><strong>Have you noticed a particular gender dominance at your parish and parish groups? Do you have any explanation for this?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLKS0XGRYi8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=44&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently having a conversation with some friends and the subject of religion and gender came up.\u00a0It is a common conception that the practice of religion is generally stronger among women rather than men. I have to admit that, in my experience, it has been the complete opposite. When I was back in England the prayer group and young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1914,2202,127],"class_list":["post-19225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-gender","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19228,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions\/19228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}