I'm not talking about nuns or the like, who play a subservient role to the priests. I mean the leaders of clergy. Those who actually give the sermons or lectures (Or whatever they happen to be called in that religion).
I know that Pagans and Wiccans have their Priestess'.
Any others?
2006-12-19 13:46:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Celts (take Norma)
The Episcopalian, this year.
Women can and do preach in the Christian faith, but it's mainly the men who do.
2006-12-19 13:48:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Catholicism does not enable woman leaders yet woman do play an significant function. The nuns particularly are the degree managers for the church, they make all of the stuff, (like the host, wine, statues, and so forth.) and coach the youngsters yada yada yada, And why, nicely as I Catholic i'm able to tell the church gets caught in a rut, lots. It took them hundreds of years to realize no longer anybody spoke Latin anymore and that they'd desire to alter the mass to be pronounced in vernacular. woman would be allowed to rule sometime even regardless of the indisputable fact that that's lots away because of the fact the church keeps it particularly is custom and you will desire to offer them credit for that. The mass we are saying, and the sacraments we do has been particularly the same because of the fact the Roman Empire!
2016-12-15 04:38:42 · answer #2 · answered by karsten 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Eastern Orthodox do - the Church of Mar Thoma in the United States, for example.
Liberal Methodist churches.
Metropolitan Community Churches.
2006-12-19 14:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Quite a few religions allow the ordination of female clergy, in addition to Pagans and Wiccans (and for quite a long time):
1) Christian Connection Church: An early relative of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, this body ordained women as early as 1810
2) The Presbyterian Church started ordaining women in 1893.
3) In 1956, the United Methodist Church in America granted ordination and full clergy rights to women.
4) The Unitarian Universalist Association has a long history of welcoming women to the ministry, reaching back to 1963 and its predecessor, the Universalist Church. In 1999 it became the first major religion in the US with women outnumbering men in the clergy.
5) Church of Scotland: ordained women ministers in 1968.
6a) The church bodies that formed the ELCA in 1988 began ordaining women in 1970 when the Lutheran Church in America ordained a woman.
6b) The state Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Germany (EKD) ordain women and have women as bishops.
6c) The Lutheran state Churches in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland ordain women and these Lutheran churches in Europe have women as bishops already.
7) Reform Judaism created its first woman rabbi in 1972, Reconstructionist Judaism in 1974, and Conservative Judaism in 1985, and women in these movements are now routinely granted semicha on an equal basis with men.
8) The majority of Anglican provinces ordain women as both deacons and priests
9) The Salvation Army ordains women.
10) A number of Baptist Churches in the United States, including American Baptist Churches USA, North American Baptist Conference, Alliance of Baptists and Progressive National Baptist Convention, ordain women.
11) The Reformed Churches in Switzerland and in the Netherlands ordain women.
12) Islam: Although Muslims do not formally ordain religious leaders, the imam serves as a spiritual leader and religious authority. There is a current controversy among Muslims on the circumstances in which women may act as imams — that is, lead a congregation in salat (prayer).
*Three of the four Sunni schools, as well as many Shia, agree that a woman may lead a congregation consisting of women alone in prayer, although the Maliki school does not allow this. According to all currently existing traditional schools of Islam, a woman cannot lead a mixed gender congregation in salat (prayer).
13) Buddhism: The ordination of women is currently and historically practiced in some Buddhist regions, such East Asia and Taiwan, and not in others, such as India and Sri Lanka.
2006-12-19 15:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure Protestants allow women pastors. Buuuuut... it looks like pretty much everyone else has already told you as much, so... I guess this answer is kind of superfluous, eh? Oh well. Just another truth spoken, I guess.
2006-12-19 13:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ancestral Worshiping
2006-12-19 13:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by mr america 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Protestants i the Christian faith allow female clergy or ministers.
2006-12-19 13:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by Ted 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Christianity. Most all Protestant religions allow equal status to women (as pastors). Equal opportunity idiocy.
2006-12-19 13:49:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Most christian (protestants)churches allow female as well as males in their clergy.
Females are considered property in many religons such as Islam, and not allowed any role in that religion.
Many north american indian tribes honor women equal with men.
All in all christianity is the most equal for females.
2006-12-19 13:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Churchs that are only called "christian" churchs with no religious title I have seen this ALOT...its the normal thing there.
2006-12-19 13:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by the_one 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the Episcopal Churches and the Jewish religions now allow women in some cases.
Christian churches generally allow women to be pastors.
2006-12-19 13:48:44 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋