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  2. Women and religion - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Quaker views on women - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of Quaker involvement in women's rights continued into the 20th and 21st centuries, with Quakers playing large roles in organizations continuing to work on women's rights. For example, Alice Paul was a Quaker woman who was a prominent leader in the National Woman's Party, which advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment.

  4. Women in Sikhism - Wikipedia

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    Sikhism. The principles of Sikhism state that women have the same souls as men and thus possess an equal right to cultivate their spirituality [1] with equal chances of achieving salvation. [2] Women in Sikhism participate in all religious, cultural, social, and secular activities including lead religious congregations, take part in the Akhand ...

  5. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Friedrich Nietzsche's views on women - Wikipedia

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    Writings. Nietzsche wrote specifically about his views on women in Section VII of Human, All Too Human, which seems to hold women in high regard; but given some of his other comments, his overall attitude towards women is ambivalent. For instance, while in Human, All Too Human, he states that "the perfect woman is a higher type of human than ...

  7. Women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Outline. Christianity portal. v. t. e. The roles of women in Christianity have varied since its founding. Women have played important roles in Christianity [ 1] especially in marriage and in formal ministry positions within certain Christian denominations, and parachurch organizations. In 2016, it was estimated that 52–53 percent of the world ...

  8. Womanist theology - Wikipedia

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    Womanist theology is a methodological approach to theology which centers the experience and perspectives of Black women, particularly African-American women. The first generation of womanist theologians and ethicists began writing in the mid to late 1980s, and the field has since expanded significantly. The term has its roots in Alice Walker 's ...

  9. Gender and religion - Wikipedia

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    Gender and religion. Gender, defined as the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity, and religion, a system of beliefs and practices followed by a community, share a multifaceted relationship that influences both individual and collective identities. The manner in which individuals express ...