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Religion, Feminism, and the Family. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. 1996. pp. 166–182. ISBN 978-0-664-25512-1. "The Revolution in the Churches: Women's Religious Activism in the Early American Republic". In Hutson, James H. Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman ...
The Women's Mosque of America, which claims to be America's first female-only mosque, opened in Los Angeles. [ 211 ] [ 212 ] In the GC session in Dallas on July 9, 2015, Seventh-day Adventists voted not to allow their regional church bodies to ordain women pastors.
The religious status of women is a very important aspect of the history of the religion and one of the most critical issues between the oldest religious divisions of the religion, Svetambar and Digambar. The major distinction between these two divisions is the position of women in their societies.
The evangelicals worked hard to convert the slaves to Christianity and were especially successful among black women, who played the role of religious specialists in Africa and again in America. Slave women exercised wide-ranging spiritual leadership among Africans in America in healing and medicine, church discipline, and revivalistic enthusiasm.
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (with Rushika Fernandopulle) (2005) Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem, New York: Oxford University Press, (1992) Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, New York: Oxford University Press, (1994)
Raser, Harold E., Phoebe Palmer, Her Life and Thought Studies in Women and Religion, Volume 22, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston/Queenston, 1997. Reuther, Rosemary Radford and Rosemary Skinner Keller, Women and Religion in America: The Nineteenth Century. San Francisco, Harper and Row, 1981.
1983. "Women in Colonial French America", in Women in Religion in America (The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods), Volume II, Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Keller, eds, San Francisco: Harper and Row (1983), pp. 79–132. 1980. "Bridging the Gulf of Meaning," The R.V.H. Manual on Palliative Care, New York: Arno Press, (1980), pp. 231–242.
Siddur Nashim: A Sabbath Prayer Book for Women, a siddur written in 1976 by Naomi Janowitz and Margaret Wenig, was the first siddur to use female imagery and pronouns to refer to God. [140] The Anglican Church in Canada ordained six female priests. [141] Pamela McGee was the first female ordained to the Lutheran ministry in Canada. [12]