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Women in the Sacred Texts

Throughout history people have seen the struggles of women to gain equality. Women have fought in the areas of work, play, the government, and general independence. However, one place this fight should not have gone was faith, but it has. Women now fight for equality in the traditions of religions all across the globe. Many of the issues women have, whether real or just blown out of proportion, are rooted in the sacred religious texts of the religion under attack. Three of the most well known and well studied religions of the world Christianity, Islam, and Judaism face some of the harshest feminist criticism. Sadly, more and more of these criticisms are made by people who have no information about the faith they are criticizing. This paper will go to the sacred texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and to theological scholars in order to try and determine just how women are portrayed in each text, and how that portrayal has affected the way women......

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