I was reading through the book and found some new interesting things that I did't know before from history class. One of the first things that I realized from women's experiences in religion was that Protestants stopped worshiping female saints like Virgin Mary and it was solely the male Christ figures that would be worshiped. Like Catholics, majority of protestants with the exception of the Quakers did not offer women a position to be involved in churches. This also plays a role in today's religion even though women can read the scriptures and now play a role in the altar. Women still can't play a role of being priest or the pope and people have different opinions in this.
I remember being in my Religions of the World class and having a discussion whether women should play a role in being priests in a Catholic church and a classmate of mine disagreed because he said that Jesus was a man and our whole lives it has been a tradition for the men to take role in Catholic institutions.
Other than the fact that women could not be involved in the important roles of their religion they also had limited access to education outside of their home. The Bible was a very important role in the Protestant church and as quoted in the book "reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women" (Strayer,722). In our culture today women can read and write and have access to education, but it is different in other cultures because women are still under male supervision.
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