Patriarchy in Society and Religion. Debunking the Father of the Postmodern Evil Demon : Grin Verlag : 9783346340023 : 3346340023 : 03 Jan 2021 : Document from the year 2021 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1.0, Kwame Nkrumah University, language: English, abstract: This article seeks "to expose the falseness or hollowness" of a millennia-old ideology. I intend to critique what I have described, with a modicum of poetic licence, as the father of the postmodern evil Demon known as patriarchy by turning on its head, an op-ed by Cardinal Wilfrid Napier entitled "Patriarchy is not the source of all evil" which got my scribal juices flowing. I explore the origins of patriarchy going back to about four millennia ago in Mesopotamia in the Ancient Near East and show that patriarchy in both religion and society is the source of the post-modern evils of domination, colonisation, and othering others, suppressing and dehumanising them, especially if these others are women, simply because