Reconstructing the rise of Christianity: the role of women.

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: Stark, Rodney | Copyright information

Modern and ancient historians agree that women were especially responsive to the early Christian movement. It also is agreed that women were accorded considerably higher status within Christian circles than in the surrounding pagan societies. In this essay I first explain how these two aspects of the early church were connected. Then I explain how an excess of women in the Christian subcultures, combined with a great excess of males in the world around them, would have resulted in a substanti...

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