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LakeArenal

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2. Shakers

Reply to walkingman (Original post)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 05:14 PM

Feb 2022

Shaker theology held that the sect's eighteenth-century founder, Mother Ann Lee, represented a female embodiment of the Godhead, just as Christ incarnated the male principle. ... Thus, all Shaker leadership positions were shared equally by men and women.Feb 1, 2018
https://daily.jstor.org › the-shaker-fo...
The Shaker Formula for Gender Equality - JSTOR Daily

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Having just finished "Handmaidens Tale" it got me to thinking... [View all] walkingman Feb 2022 OP

Absolutely... secondwind Feb 2022 #1

Shakers LakeArenal Feb 2022 #2

That's interesting - I'll read up on them. I've heard that a lot of native Americans walkingman Feb 2022 #6

Man created God in his image. CrispyQ Feb 2022 #3

Good point - never thought of it that way. walkingman Feb 2022 #7

There's a lot of writing on this subject ymetca Feb 2022 #4

Thank you! walkingman Feb 2022 #8

In my experience Dale in Laurel MD Feb 2022 #5

I've heard a lot of positive things about UU - aren't Wiccan just female? walkingman Feb 2022 #9

There are all-female circles/covens, Dale in Laurel MD Feb 2022 #10

I have encountered both all male and all female slightlv Feb 2022 #11

sort of a side comment but I have always found that the "Trinity" - rurallib Feb 2022 #12

It is interesting to me that some Catholic cultures... old as dirt Mar 2022 #13