Iran Gender Roles

Religion is known to have varying effects on different cultures throughout the world. Cultures cause changes in the way religion is practiced and viewed throughout different countries. Culture specifically causes inconsistences in monotheistic religions, and when they are compared between western countries and eastern countries. The manifestation of Islam in different countries changes socially and economically, so because of their varying cultures, Iran, the US, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africas’ Muslim populations have extensive differences in the way they practice Islam, specifically in their Gender roles and Religious Rituals.
Iran, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a Middle Eastern country bordering Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan …show more content…
Gender roles in the United States are further progressed than in Iran on many levels. Due to the fact that the United States’ national religion is not Islam, laws and regulations are not based on the religion, which in turn causes some people to practice the religion in a loosely based manner. Because there is not a law or a particular Islamic culture that is followed by the mass population of the United States many people believe that Muslims can follow their own idea of the religion, and choose what they want to believe in. Not to say there are not strict Muslims who follow the Quran rigorously in the United States, they are just allowed more freedom of oppression when not living In a theocratic government. According to a Muslim American teacher, “There's one more major difference: The code of conduct for a Muslim population in a non-Muslim country is a little different than Muslims in a Muslim country. For Muslim minorities, we are required to be peaceful and abide strictly by the laws of the land (for example, adhering to monogamy laws, not driving under the age of 16) as long as they aren't forcing us to sin. It also allows Muslim minorities to renounce their faith in Islam, at least on the surface, if they are under eminent threat of …show more content…
Many people in not only Islam but also religions such as Christianity and Judaism follow the rules of the holy text which originally say that women are to follow men because they are their superiors. If were in a Muslim country, and there was a certain public dress code (as it is here in America for no nudity, and it is considered inappropriate to walk in regular public places in a bikini) then yes, she would be asked to cover up and she should do it, on the basis of following the law. So this interpretation of Islam and , gender roles have a lot of reliance on the public law of the country. According to a scholar on the Quran, “As the Islamic state and religion expanded, interpretations of the gender roles laid out in the Quran varied with different cultures. For example, some religious scholars in ninth- and 10th-century Iraq were prescribing more restrictive roles for women, while elite women in Islamic Spain were sometimes able to bend these rules and mix quite freely with men (see Walladah bint Mustakfi below). Some contemporary women -- and men as well -- reject the limitations put on women and are reinterpreting the Quran from this perspective.” Gender roles are based on how loosely one may interpret the Quran, which is also correlated to the geography of where a person might be. So, to say gender roles in the United States are more loosely based in the Muslim communities