Yes?
That’s what I meant.
And it became much worse after the justification of enlightened “reason”.
The Protestant Reformation is an odd case in that while Martin Luther may have been misogynist, it succeeded because there were a number of very strong female leaderships (specially his wife). These women were only pushed to the sidelines when the cultural Enlightenment pushed the church into a congealed orthodoxy.
It’s exactly about those that I’m talking about.
I’ll just partially disagree on the phrasing of “religious beliefs like racism and misogyny”. Yes, there was misogyny in the Church, but it was not so strong before. And racism was “invented” and retroactively connected afterwards.
It’s what I learned in school and through my life, but I don’t have sources on that.
The Enlightenment and Positivist narrative is problematic, even before there was Capitalism.
Many things that are blamed on previous times are actually products of the “enlightenment”, later like Capitalism may as well.
Like:
“Now that we don’t live in the darkness of superstition anymore and are enlightened by reason, we now know that a woman’s place is in the kitchen, and black people’s place is serving the white, until they are enlightened as well”.
What I know is that in medieval times gender roles were much more flexible and “undefined”, and it was Enlightenment that pushed for strict categorization and definition of these things.
If you are thinking about that letter from Paul, I won’t claim to know for sure, but it might have been a prohibition in a specific situation, as it’s a personal letter, and in another Paul highly praises many female leaderships in church.