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  • Published: 21 Sep 2021
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781138641839-HOF17-1

Contents

  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Private religious expression
  • Women’s religious institutions as liminal spaces
  • Public religious activism: local missions
  • Public religious activism: global missions
  • Leadership and authority in new religious movements
  • Religion and women’s rights
  • References and further reading

Women and the Church, 1776–1928

Abstract

Britain’s diverse religious cultures shaped women’s lives and identities from the cradle to the grave in the long nineteenth century. For some, religion provided support, inspiration, and avenues to meaningful private reflection and public activity. For others, religion was a cause of rebellion, a system to reject, a source of oppressive patriarchal ideas and practices. Religion could function – sometimes simultaneously – as both empowering and oppressive. Whether the relationship was comfortable or not, women’s engagement with religious institutions and ideas were key components in the development of gendered identities and feminist activism during this time period.

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