First, will work as a woman Head -headed head Of CanterburyAfter 105 men, who played the role since St. Augustine, took over in the year 597.
This means London’s bishop Sara Mully The church of England’s most stained glass is broken through the roof. But for many religions of the world, this obstacle for women in the top leadership remains strongly intact.
Here is a look at how high women in the ministry can climb in some major belief traditions.
Anglican communian
As the archbishop of Cancerbury, Mulli will also lead the Anglican Communian in his new role, which is described by Communian as before. More than 85 million members are spread over 165 countries and many still believe that the Bible only requires male-demolition.
An exception is the Episcopal Church in the United States. Catherine Jefferts Shori was selected in 2006 to act as the presiding bishop of the Anglican province.
Other Protestant Church
In addition to the Episcopal Church, there were women leaders in other mainline Protestant sects in the US.
Rev. Elizabeth Eaton recently began 12 years, which was the first woman to preside over the Bishop of the Evengelical Lutharan Church in the US, the largest American Lutharan body. United Methodist Church The women have worked as the chairman of their powerful Council of Bishops, including the current President – Tracy Smith Malon. In 2023, Reve Karen Georgia Thompson became the first woman to lead the United Church of Christ as her general minister and president.
In the Group Churches, some women are pastors. But the largest Gospelist sect, the Southern Baptist Convention, has maintained an all-man leadership and has maintained bars by serving women as a pastor in SBC-condensed churches.
In the US, most of the major Black Christian sects have no principle to appoint female leaders in such a way that some sects do, and women have preached in black churches historically since the 19th century since the 19th century.
Yet till the 21st century the sect was led by all-men, and women are still exceptions to the top roots. An example is the Vashati Murphy McKenzi, who was chosen the first female bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2000.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church distinguishes between the ministry and the management when it comes in the leadership roles of women.
The church held women to alert the women of the ministry, which means that they could not be a priest or deaf, on the basis that all men were motivated by Christ. However, women have reached high levels of church management, especially under Pope Francis.
The heavenly Pope promoted several nuns to senior vatican positions, which included the first female prefect of a sacred visual department, and the women were given the right to vote in the major Vatican celebrations known as Dharmasabha.
Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-Day Saints
Usually known as Mormon Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-Day Saints Currently his President, Russell M. After Nelson’s death, a leadership is undergoing infection.
Each church president has been a man since its inception in 1830-and will also be the next person who leads more than 17 million members, Global Church. This is keeping in mind the all-man priest of faith.
The highest ranked women in the church oversee organizations that run programs for women and girls. These sit under several layers of leadership groups reserved for men only.
Judaism
The gender condition within the Judaism is clearly different in Israel and the United States, which is responsible for the world’s more than 80% of the Jewish population.
The largest American branches, reforms and conservatives allow women to be rabbis, while conservative branch does not. In Israel, conservatives and reform movements are small, and conservative officials hold the monopoly on all matters about Judaism.
Islam
Unlike England’s church, in all belief traditions, including Islam, there is a centralized hierarchical structure, and therefore does not have a role equal to the archbishop of canterbury.
Among some 2 billion followers of Islam around the world, women do not lead mixed-randalic prayers in traditional Muslim settings and the top formal ranks of Islamic officials are largely filled with men.
Nevertheless, many Muslim women are occupying other leadership roles in Islamic places in their communities, including religious scholars, preachers, and in some cases, religious courts judges.
Different cultural criteria or interpretation of religious and scholars can give rise to different ideas and debates on some roles, scope or boundaries. Some Muslims are emphasizing to expand the roles of women in Islamic places and to pointing to historical examples from Islamic heritage.
Women leaders in other decentralized beliefs
Instead of a single, centralized figure or body, the rights in Hinduism are taken from holy texts, tradition and teachings of spiritual teachers and monasteries.
Similarly, the rights in Buddhism stems from the teachings of the Buddha, which accepts enlightened individuals and community consent with the scripture that serves as a guidance rather than a certain source of all rules.
Both religions have several sects and orders with their own leaders and a small number of them are women.
In Hinduism, some examples include a 72 -year -old Indian spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamay, who survives a marginalized fishing community and now oversees his own spiritual and charitable organization. Examples can also be found in the Ramakrishna order, with a separate branch for female monks that establish and lead their own monasteries worldwide.
In Buddhism, more women are emphasizing for coordination and for height for high title. Some schools, such as Soto Zen, the largest and largest number of Western physicians in Japan, are more open to female leaders and their ranks have many abesses.
Sikhism
Sikhism, which is the fifth largest religion in the world in some cases, is also male-dominated.
Any of the 10 gurus, the human spiritual teacher of faith, were not women. Women have also been reduced to a great extent in the Budbandhak Committee on Shiromani Gurudwara, which oversees many gurdwaras in India. Bibi Jagir Kaur was the first woman to be elected chairman of the committee in 1999 and then in 2004.
In many gurudwaras, some rituals such as Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh Holy Scripture, or performing spiritual music (kirtan) in Golden Temple in Amritsar, remain the most sacred Sikh temple, large-scale male-dominated.
Those criteria are gradually turning to other parts of the world including North America where many women have formed kirtan groups.
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