Radical Protestant sects offered women greater religious participation than orthodox churches

Evidence

In England more women than men joined the first group of separatists in 1568. Some of them went to Holland, where more freedom was allowed for women, and associated themselves with the separatist churches there. The religious sects of the English Civil War, discussed in Chapter 4, also offered greater opportunities for female participation. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 601

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gnostic Christianity granted women religious roles orthodox churches denied them — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 116; Pantheistic sects granted women religious freedoms orthodox churches denied — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 531; Early women scientists acted through egalitarian religious sects and domestic-role constriction — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 1017 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Early women scientists acted through egalitarian religious sects and domestic-role constriction #corroborates (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 1017
• Radical religious sects extended egalitarian cosmology to family and sexual relations #expands (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 530
• Women justify religious leadership through juristic disagreement, not gender equality #qualifies (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 619