Saturday 15 September 2012

Bettany Hughes: Is religion good for women?





Bettany Hughes wonders why women seem to have been written out of the history of religion

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/18395819)


Women and the divine have long been intimately linked, but our role in religion has, for thousands of years, been suppressed.
For me as a historian this is mind-boggling.
Like it or not, women have always formed 50% of the human population; and yet we generally occupy around 0.5% of human history. With religion, those statistics are reversed. It is strikingly clear from archaeological and historical evidence that women have at various times in history played a key role in faith.


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