Mindsets in the conception and religious life of women. An example: La Mancha in the eighteenth century / Las mentalidades en el concepto y vida de la mujer. Ejemplo: La Mancha en el siglo XVIII

Abstract

Mindsets explain the concept and life of women. A mentality has been analyzed of religious roots derived from a “worldview” called “society of atonement” in which everything is justified by the atonement of Christ due to the sin of men. Besides, it explains a society which assigns desired goods, stratifies into estates, but also vile professions and even, remaps women as a concept, roles and unequal access to what is considered valuable. The main object of this study is the Campo de Calatrava (La Mancha, Ciudad Real/Spain), in the eighteenth century, where a new enlightened mentality arrives, that shatters the worldview of religious roots, whose process of secularization reaches our days, and which explains the change in the conception and life of women.

Keywords

• Woman
• mindset
• society of atonement
• Enlightenment
• equality.