{"id":114190,"date":"2021-06-23T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114190"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:50:24","slug":"women-as-temple-priests-an-idea-whose-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/women-as-temple-priests-an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Women as temple priests: An idea whose time has come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why we need to permit women as a priest?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW65809894 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW65809894 BCX0\">Context:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW65809894 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW65809894 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW65809894 BCX0\">Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister PK Sekar Babu\u2019s remark that women could be appointed priests in the 35,000-odd temples in the state is long overdue.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW65809894 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Two major criticisms against the entry of women<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">: The\u00a0fear of women\u00a0coming in contact with\u00a0men, and notions of purity and pollution, especially associated with menstruation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reasons to\u00a0open up\u00a0temples to women priests:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Raj Kali Kuer vs Ram Rattan Pandey 1955\u00a0case<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:\u00a0This judgment notes that many priestly offices in Indian temples were hereditary. The Supreme Court held that\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">women have the right to succeed to religious office.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The authority of men, or of Brahmins, to conduct rituals is not literally vested in any\u00a0religious texts including\u00a0Srimad\u00a0Bhagvad.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Completing the Bhakti revolution:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The single biggest achievement of the Bhakti movement is elevating the dignity of the emotion among the public and\u00a0marginalising\u00a0the ritual conformism of\u00a0Brahmanism. So, the\u00a0Opening up\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">inner sanctum ritual to all people\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">is in line with completing the Bhakti revolution<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Conclusion:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Now it is time for\u00a0not only Hinduism, but also for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">all other religions to liberate religion from\u00a0patriarchy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/women-as-temple-priests-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-7369627\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Indian Express<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we need to permit women as a priest?\u00a0 Context:\u00a0Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister PK Sekar Babu\u2019s remark that women could be appointed priests in the 35,000-odd temples in the state is long overdue.\u00a0 Two major criticisms against the entry of women: The\u00a0fear of women\u00a0coming in contact with\u00a0men, and notions of purity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/women-as-temple-priests-an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women as temple priests: An idea whose time has come<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[8103,8104,349],"class_list":["post-114190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","tag-gender-equality","tag-temple-entry-movement","tag-women-empowerment","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704942326},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}