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Consider the role religion plays in the lives of women.
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Consider the role religion plays in the lives of women In order to consider the role religion plays in the lives of women in the 21st century society, it is necessary to note the decline of female importance in modern and ancient faith. It is important to note that women have not always been subordinate to men in religion but this second-class status is fairly recent. Karen Armstrong notes that women were considered central to the spiritual quest, as archaeologists have uncovered, across Europe and Asia, effigies of naked, pregnant women seeming to depict fertility and life. Armstrong argues that male aggression exhibited through the invasion of these societies by male dominated cultures from the northern hemisphere brought the end to the 'Mother Goddess' with the establishment of monotheism. Women's bodies are also felt to be dangerous by many religions. Menstruation and pregnancy are thought to 'pollute' religious rituals. Muslim women...
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