Not that I want to be thought to be a dedicated "social engineer", "a
plumber", and still less a "postmodern hegemonist of social construction
[!]", I'd like to ask why medieval Christians did not seriously envisage
women as cult directors when they had been widely accepted as such in
earlier history. Does not the repudiation of women as cult leaders and
priests by Christianity and the near-excision of them from any active role
in Judaism and Islam show that these cults were also repudiating and
combatting previous pagan religions in which women often played major and
perhaps sacramental roles? John Mundy
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