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Valerie Hobbs deposited Characterizations of Feminism in Reformed Christian Online Media on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
The term “culture war” is often used to describe the relationship between evangelical Christianity
and movements like feminism. Given the increasing dependence of religious groups on online
media, analysis of the discourse therein offers an effective means of examining patterns within
Christian discourse about feminism. The current study examines a corpus of 147 articles from a
popular online North American Reformed Christian news site, focusing on what feminism is most
frequently associated with and counterexamples to these characterizations. Feminism was consistently
connected with false theology, breakdown of marriage/traditional gender roles, promiscuity
and nontraditional sexuality, abortion, anti-Christian cultural change, and liberal politics. However,
a minority of dissenting voices suggests that some are allowed to express cautious support of
feminism.