What role does a gender hierarchy play in the everyday lives of believers and their actual role within their religion’s authority structure

What role does a gender hierarchy play in the everyday lives of believers and their actual role within their religion’s authority structure

What role does a gender hierarchy play in the everyday lives of believers and their actual role within their religion’s authority structure?

You will need to use Tituba as a colonial example and modern information on the role of one woman, Tituba, and then an article for the place of women today. You also have short bits of corroborating evidence from the assigned readings about today, giving you enough information on what status women have held in the church for several centuries in America. There are also exceptions to the norm, as we saw with Quakers (who are also still around today and still egalitarian). Find a recent article (Using the detailed instructions below.) about women in religion in modern America today. You have one example in the reading about the Southern Baptist Churches and their problem with sexual predators which you can use, showing how authority “confirmed” by God has allowed some men to abuse their authority. But you can also find other topics addressing whether women are allowed to be leaders, ordained pastors or priests, or in some cases, if they even have authority over their own lives and bodies. There are also articles about some churches who tell women to they should stay with a domestically violent spouses as a “Christian” duty.

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