Religion offers oppressed groups a mirage of transcendence as compensation for immanence

Evidence

There is a justification, a supreme compensation, that society has always been bent on dispensing to woman: religion. There must be religion for women as for the people, for exactly the same reasons: when a sex or a class is condemned to immanence, the mirage of transcendence must be offered to it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1765

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Marx’s ‘opium of the people’ and the structural parallel Beauvoir draws between women and the proletariat as classes condemned to immanence. — connects to: Religion sanctifies women’s enforced passivity as spiritual superiority over men — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1765; Subordinate groups adopt vague spiritual equality as psychological compensation for status loss — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2194; Religious accounts of partial human agency enable survival under patriarchal inequality (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the immanence/transcendence apparatus as the lens for reading religion’s social function.

Broader Connections

• Subordinate groups adopt vague spiritual equality as psychological compensation for status loss #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2194
• Religious accounts of partial human agency enable survival under patriarchal inequality #expands (0.75)