Men, Women and Religious Depth

Well, this may be a bit contentious (hahaha hyperbole at its best). But I have some thoughts about religious belief, and the differences between men and women.
I think it can be taken as historical fact that religious personages in virtually all societies have been men. Almost exclusively men. Feminists have usually ascribed this to misogyny - or put more baldly, the oppression of women by men. Unfortunately sometimes true, but that in itself does not explain everything. The reality may be much more interesting.

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If we go back to our collective roots, the usual division of labour between men and women was that men did the hunting and women did the gathering. (Yes, I know this is simplistic, but grant me the concept as a hypothetical.) In other words, men, because of physical attributes - strength, endurance, et - did the more physical. And, the more physically dangerous. Life was dangerous for all, yes, but men dealt with personal danger, and consequent death, on a regular basis.
Hunting was dangerous in the days when the weapons used by man were not much more than those used by some prey. And possibly less lethal than some used by other predators. Gathering, on the other hand was less dangerous.
Any male, in years gone by, knew that on any particular hunting foray, there was the possibility that he might not survive. Death was always a possibility. Not so for a gatherer, close to home.
Also, hunters deal in death. Fact. To hunt is to kill something, to cause a death. And so men were always close to death, either as potential subject or as creator.
Women dealt with death only after-the-fact, with the prey already killed. Unless by accident or disease, or just bad luck, women only dealt directly with death during childbirth. And traumatic as it could be - and still is in parts of the world - this event happens only sporadically. In comparison to a hunter, who deals with it regularly.
Any combat veteran will tell you that being close to death makes one very spiritual. The joke that there are no atheists on foxholes rings essentially true. It is funny because of its truth.
Given that this state of affairs between men and women endured for centuries and millennia, men acquired an ingrained spirituality that goes very deep. Boys brought up with this culture would acquire the spiritual mindset very early - from personal experience, from habit, and from role-modelling.
It is not much of a leap from this spirituality to the importance of religion, as a formalized version of this mindset. And men would embrace religion as the formalized version of the death-experience they had as hunters. And with the same depth. And this depth manifests itself in deep involvement in religion, in all its historical forms.
Gatherers, on the other hand, experience religion more sporadically, and with less depth, as the death-experience occurs with much less frequency and violence.
The hunter-gatherer difference, and the hunting mindset also explain another interesting fact: men do not go to church as much as women. (I cannot speak to Islam on this one; I do not know the statistics.)
Hunting is a somewhat individual activity. The danger of hunting is personal danger, not group danger. Dangerous prey, or other predators, would not likely kill every member of a hunting group. Also, hunting is generally a quiet activity. (Silence is golden. It also gets you a good dinner.) And so the translation into religious practice: personal religion with some aspects not shared or share-able. And this means less church-going. But not less spirituality.
Gathering, on the other hand, can be done as a large group. In fact probably was often so, since gathering would sometimes involve small geographic areas where a valuable foodstuff grew or was harvested. As grove of trees, for example. This harvesting/gathering would be undertaken by everyone available, to maximize the "take". And this translates into religion in the large - at times everyone. It also explains the rather social aspect of religion for women. Religion is primarily NOT a social thing for men.
SO - Men are more religious than women. But they don't go to church as much as women.