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Founded at. Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious ( LCWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious ). LCWR includes over 1300 members, who are members of 302 religious ...
The Women's Institute ( WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897. It was based on the British concept of Women's Guilds, created by Rev ...
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity ." [ 1]
Christian women's organizations (7 C, 35 P) N. Nunneries (9 C, 9 P) O. Orthodox Jewish schools for women (36 P) Pages in category "Women's religious ...
The study of women and religion examines women in the context of different religious faiths. This includes considering female gender roles in religious history as well as how women participate in religion. Particular consideration is given to how religion has been used as a patriarchal tool to elevate the status and power of men over women. [ 1]
Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh-Day) International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement. Sabbath Rest Advent Church. SDARM General Conference (Adventist Reform Movement) United Sabbath-Day Adventist Church.
The National Association of Colored Women (later National Association of Colored Women's Clubs) was established in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 1896. This first of what would later become biennial convention meetings of the association was held at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. The organizations attending this convention included the ...