I decided to look further into the issue of Maasai women and all I came up with so far was this
The Masai of Kenya: Masai Women DVD SH-924DVD http://artsci.wustl.edu/~jbowen/content/chapters/5.html Detailed Description The Masai are animal herders in the East African Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. They are proud of not growing crops and devote themselves to their cattle. But only the men have rights to these cattle, and women are wholly dependent. With an astonishingly candid elder Masai woman as guide, "Masai Women" explores what it means to be a woman - from childhood, to taunted, weeping new bride, to old age - in this completely male dominated society.
Thanks for the information. Tenrikyo actually doesn't forbid its followers from being Christians, etc. It seems to be outside the norm for a religion and is often considered more of a philosophy. But the fact that a woman started it is very important. Japan has produced some interesting anomalies - possibly due to the fact that when they took up the Chinese alphabet with all its limitations and joys, women were left with the somewhat more facile heian alphabet, in which The Tale of Ginza was written, by a woman who is sometimes called the Shakespeare of Japan.
Christian Science is just an odd sect of Christianity- more viable than the Shakers. But it certainly does nothing to contradict the male domination of the scriptures. So if a geneeral fundamentalist revival were to take place, and the scriptures once again to be followed, word for word, it would all revert.
I meant a religion - a whole body of thought, like Buddhism or Christianity, in which a single person is the prophet or demigod or whatever.
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The Masai of Kenya: Masai Women DVD
SH-924DVD
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~jbowen/content/chapters/5.html
Detailed Description
The Masai are animal herders in the East African Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. They are proud of not growing crops and devote themselves to their cattle. But only the men have rights to these cattle, and women are wholly dependent. With an astonishingly candid elder Masai woman as guide, "Masai Women" explores what it means to be a woman - from childhood, to taunted, weeping new bride, to old age - in this completely male dominated society.
Doesn't look promising, that.
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Christian Science is just an odd sect of Christianity- more viable than the Shakers. But it certainly does nothing to contradict the male domination of the scriptures. So if a geneeral fundamentalist revival were to take place, and the scriptures once again to be followed, word for word, it would all revert.
I meant a religion - a whole body of thought, like Buddhism or Christianity, in which a single person is the prophet or demigod or whatever.
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