Women's Role in Religion

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This paper contends that all through the ages, women have contributed a lot to the history of religion. The author states that the participation of women in religion has shown that women are often more devoted than men to their beliefs and faith. The paper describes how women have shown this through the ages, and explains both historical and modern roles of women in organized religious movements.

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"The success of most religious movements is usually credited to women. It is because of the hard work and dedication that women impart to their religious movement. Inger Furseth, in her online article Sociology of Religion: Women's Role in Historic Religious and Political Movements indicate the following on how women work for religious movements and some reasons why women are active in religion."

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