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Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group have dominance ...
The Patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. In the Latter Day Saint movement, a patriarch is one who has been ordained to the office of patriarch in the Melchizedek priesthood. The term is considered synonymous with the term evangelist, a term favored by the Community of Christ.
Patriarchalism is an archetypal political conception that arose most succinctly in seventeenth century England. It defends absolute power for the monarchy, through language that emphasized the "paternal" power of the king over the state and his subjects. [1]
A popular definition, according to James Peoples and Garrick Bailey, is "female dominance". [ 5] Within the academic discipline of cultural anthropology, according to the OED, matriarchy is a "culture or community in which such a system prevails" [ 4] or a "family, society, organization, etc., dominated by a woman or women" without reference to ...
Patriarchate ( / ˈpeɪtriɑːrkɪt, - keɪt /, UK also / ˈpætri -/; [1] Ancient Greek: πατριαρχεῖον, patriarcheîon) is an ecclesiological term in Christianity, designating the office and jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical patriarch. According to Christian tradition three patriarchates were established by the apostles as ...
Hagia Sophia was the patriarchal cathedral until 1453 In its disputed 28th Canon, the Council of Chalcedon in 451 recognized an expansion of the boundaries of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and of its authority over bishops of dioceses "among the barbarians", which has been variously interpreted as referring either to areas outside the ...
Pentarchy (from the Greek Πενταρχία, Pentarchía, from πέντε pénte, "five", and ἄρχειν archein, "to rule") was a model of Church organization formulated in the laws of Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527–565) of the Roman Empire. In this model, the Christian Church is governed by the heads ( patriarchs) of the five major ...
Male privilege is the system of advantages or rights that are available to men on the basis of their sex. A man's access to these benefits may vary depending on how closely they match their society's ideal masculine norm . Academic studies of male privilege were a focus of feminist scholarship during the 1970s.