3.6

This lesson tied together the three lessons from this unit: class, gender, and race. These 3 have a major impact on religion, and how we interpret that religion, which varies from individual to individual and population to population. But they are not mutually exclusive. Race effects gender and class. Class has effects on how your race and gender are interpreted. And gender has effects on how your race and class are looked at. So, it is a loop or cycle in where they all feed off of each other, which creates the atmosphere in where religion is experienced. Wheeler mentions in her article how Black Muslim women experience discrimination and how their gender and race greatly effect their religious experience especially post 9/11. She goes onto say that they in particular, being both women and black, following a now polarized religion, have been oppressed and how they are not given due justice. Intersectionality has many moving parts in conjunction with other things, such as power and sexuality, and all these together create how religion is experienced. Because the way each of these are experienced, the region they are experienced in, with whom they are experienced with, all intersect and create “religion”. Something that remains unclear is how race, as a social construct, which has been an issue for many thousands of years, is still prevalent and we are still unable to systemically eradicate it.

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