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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.

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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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women and religion.

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Bábism
- Azáli Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
- Anglicanism
- Roman Catholicism
- Old Catholicism
- Independent Catholicism
- Church of the East
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Oriental Orthodoxy
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- Mormonism
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Islam
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- Quranist
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- Sufi
- Sunni
Judaism
- Conservative
- Haymanot
- Karaite
- Orthodoxy
- Reformist
Mandaeism
Rastafari
Samaritanism

Indo-European

Indo-Iranian	Vedic Hinduism Vaishnavism Shaktism Shaivism Ayyavazhi Smartism Buddhism Mahayana Theravada Vajrayana Jainism Digambara Śvētāmbara Sikhism Yazdânism Ishikism Yarsanism Zoroastrianism

European	Armenian Baltic Dievturi Druwi Romuva Caucasian Celtic Druidry Germanic Hellenic Italian Romanian Slavic

Uralic

Central and
Northern Asian

East Asian

African

Traditional	Akan Akamba Bambuti Baluba Bantu Berber Bushongo Cushitic Dinka Efik Fon and Ewe Guanche Igbo Isoko Khoisan Lotuko Lozi Lugbara Maasai Mbuti Serer Tumbuka Yoruba Zulu

Diasporic	Candomblé Kumina Obeah Quimbanda Palo Santería Umbanda Vodou Voodoo Winti

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Asia	Proto-Indo-Iranian Armenian Ossetian Vedic Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Sikhism Zoroastrianism Mithraism Zurvanism Gnosticism Manichaeism

Europe	Celtic Germanic Anglo-Saxon Continental Norse Greek Gnosticism Neoplatonism Manichaeism Balkan Roman Slavic

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Aspects	Apostasy / Disaffiliation Behaviour Beliefs Clergy Conversion Deities Entheogens Ethnic religion Denomination Faith Fire Folk religion God Meditation Monasticism monk nun Mysticism Mythology Nature Ordination Orthodoxy Orthopraxy Prayer Religious experience Ritual liturgy sacrifice Spirituality Supernatural Symbols Truth Water Worship

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Secularism and irreligion	Antireligion Deism Agnosticism Atheism Criticism LaVeyan Satanism Deconstruction Humanistic Judaism Irreligion by country Objectivism Secular humanism Secular theology Secularization Separation of church and state Unaffiliated

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