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The study of women and religion typically examines the role of women within particular religious faiths, and religious doctrines relating to gender, gender roles, and particular women in religious history.

See also

• Women in Buddhism
• Women in Christianity
• Women in Hinduism
• Women in Islam
• Women in Sikhism
• Women in Judaism
• Bahá'í Faith and gender equality

External links

• Spots of Light: Women in the Holocaust | Faith from an exhibition by Yad Vashem
• Women in Religion section of American Academy of Religion
• Sociologyofreligion.net has a useful bibliography on this topic from the point of view of the social sciences