• 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.