What are some important religions started by women?
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Pagan/Wiccan/Druids highest dieties are Godesses\nRamtha School of Enlightenment was started by a woman, JZ Knight\nChurch Universal and Triumpant was started by Elizabeth Clair Prophet
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http://www.daughtersofzionministries.com/
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The answer is Christianity. Here is the complete list\n\n1. Christianity: 2.1 billion\n\n2. Islam: 1.3 billion\n\n3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n\n4. Hinduism: 900 million\n\n5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n\n6. Buddhism: 376 million\n\n7. primal-indigenous: 300 million\n\n8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n\n9. Sikhism: 23 million\n\n10. Juche: 19 million\n\n11. Spiritism: 15 million\n\n12. Judaism: 14 million\n\n13. Baha'i: 7 million\n\n14. Jainism: 4.2 million\n\n15. Shinto: 4 million\n\n16. Cao Dai: 4 million\n\n17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n\n18. Tenrikyo: 2 million\n\n19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n\n20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
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have a look at http://www.geocities.com/bandu_5/project2C.html and http://www.heritage.org/Research/Religion/HL387.cfm
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First, ignore the bible thumpers and koran thumpers. Here are some sites and books.  Good luck!\nWicca: The Old Religion in the New Age by Vivienne Crowley\nThe Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland\nhttp://wyndhorselair.tripod.com/bookoflaw.html\nhttp://www.collegewicca.com/\nhttp://www.empathys.co.uk/main.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnerian_Wicca\nhttp://www.glasstemple.com/basics/index.php?conjure=general\nhttp://www.tylwythteg.com/glossary.html\nhttp://www.witchipedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page\nhttp://www.modernwiccan.com/\nhttp://www.betwixt.org/\nhttp://www.pagan-heart.co.uk/home.html\nhttp://www.sacred-magick.com/ \nhttp://bluemoonwicca.org/solitary.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/k_garber/contents.html?20055\nhttp://www.witchway.net/\nhttp://earthspirits.org/\nhttp://www.wiccan-refuge.com/index.html\nhttp://www.shadowdrake.com/witchcraft/index.html\nhttp://www.jackowitch.com/\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/wicca.html\nhttp://www.unc.edu/~reddeer/\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/on/wicca/MainPage.html\nhttp://www.paganlibrary.com/\nhttp://www.paganlore.com/learning.html\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/goth/wiccanway/\nhttp://wiccanet.us/\nhttp://www.witchology.com/\nhttp://www.celticcrow.com/\nhttp://www.witchvox.com/\nhttp://www.witchs-brew.org/masterindex.html\nhttp://www.summerlands.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi\nhttp://www.wiccaforbeginners.com/\nusername enter:  wicca\npassword enter: 18+only\nhttp://paganwiccan.about.com/cs/wicca101/tp/aatpbeg_books.htm-Great books for those starting\nhttp://www.kindredborne.org/archives/wicca101.html\nhttp://wicca4beginners.tripod.com/\nhttp://www.afreshhorizon.co.uk/wicca_beginner/wicca_beginner.htm\nhttp://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/lead/517/id29.htm\nhttp://www.ecauldron.com/newpagan.php\nhttp://lotuspond.silentblue.net/wicca/wiccaadvice.html\nhttp://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/book.php?pn=J751  -a good selection of books\nhttp://www.catanna.com/paganism101.htm\nhttp://www.whitewicca.com/\nhttp://www.sticksstonesnbeyond.com/wittanwicca.htm\nhttp://www.wingsfortheheart.com/wicca.htm\nhttp://www.theblessedbee.com/readinglist.html  <---good reading list\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/on/wicca/MainPage.html\nhttp://www.witchcraft.org/info.htm\nhttp://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/basic/WICCA.HTML\nhttp://www.iamawitch.com/freepages/wiccansanctuary/silvershomepage.html
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1) Christianity 2.1 billion (Began: ca. 27 AD/CE) \nRoman Catholicism: 1.085 billion \nProtestantism: 590 million \nEastern Orthodoxy: 200 million \nAnglican: 84 million \nOriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, and other Christians: 350 million \n\nIslam 1.3 billion (Began: ca. 622 AD/CE) \nSunnism: 940 million \nShi'ism: 170 million \nSufi, Ibadiyyah, Druze and other Muslims : 80 million \nSecular/Irreligious/Agnostic/Atheist 1.1 billion \nCategory includes a wide range of beliefs, without specifically adhering to a religion. The category also includes humanism, deism, pantheism, and freethought. For more information, see the Adherents.com discussion of this category. \n\nHinduism 900 million (Began: 15th century BC/BCE) \nVaishnavism: 580 million \nShaivism: 220 million \nShaktism/Smartism/Arya Samaj/Other sects: 150 million \n\nBuddhism 708 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE) \nMahayana: 185 million \nTheravada: 124 million \nChinese/Japanese Buddhism: 394 million \nPrimal indigenous 300 million \nNot a single organized religion, includes a wide range of primarily Asian traditional or tribal religions, including Shamanism and Paganism. \n\nAfrican traditional and diasporic 100 million \nNot a single organized religion, this includes traditional African beliefs such as Yoruba as well as diasporic beliefs such as Santeria (which itself draws from Catholicism) and Vodoun. \n\nShintoism 69 million (Began: 300 BC/BCE) \nThis number states the number of practicing followers of Shintoism; for if partial or ethnic followers of Shintoism were included, the number would fall around 100–115 million. \n\nSikhism 23 million (Began: 1500s) \nJuche 19 million \nNot considered a religion by adherents, who view it as secular and anti-revisionist. Juche is the political ideology of the Workers Party of Korea, the ruling party of the DPRK; some have argued it constitutes a religion due to its Great Leader Worship characteristics. The number is approximately the entire population of the country. \nSpiritism 15 million (Began: mid-19th century) \nNot a single organized religion, includes a variety of beliefs including some forms of Umbanda. \n\nJudaism 15 million (Began: 13th century BC/BCE) \n\nFalun Gong 10-100 million* (Began: 1992) \nNot necessarily considered a religion by adherents or outside observers. No membership or rosters, thus the actual figure of practitioners is impossible to confirm. \nBahá'í Faith 7 million (Began: 19th century) \n\nJainism 4.2 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE)
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I think this is a great question.  I, in fact, have created my own religion.  It's called Oprah-Mor-Budish-ism.  It's my own little combo of never missing a syllable from Oprah's mouth, Mormonism (I figure if they can make up such a big 'ol bag of bullshit, why can't I?) Buddism, and Judaism.  In my religion it is an abomination for a man to lie with a woman but we do stress "tolerance".  In other words we "tolerate" hetero's but we're not happy about it.  Other than that we generally follow all of Oprah's principles and throw in a healthy dose of fashion, nightlife and cocktails.  Voila!  Religion.
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Many Muslims (both men and women) will say Islam does not allow women to be involved in politics.\n\nThis is false. Here is some of the reason why:\n\n"The leader of an Islamic state is confirmed by the people through a process known as bai’ah; a symbolic contract between the leader and the people wherein the leader promises to obey Islamic law and the people, in exchange, promise their allegiance. ...\n\n" In early Islam women were included in the giving of the bai’ah. Prophet Muhammad received the bai’ah from the people. The Quran addresses the issue of women giving the bai’ah to Prophet Muhammad and God tells Muhammad to accept the pledge of the women. "O Prophet! Whenever believing women come unto thee to pledge their allegiance to thee...then accept their pledge of allegiance.""\n\n...\n\n"In addition to participation in the electoral process, women have also been involved in political activities. These activities appear to be sanctioned by Islamic law. In Islam, community decisions must be made through a process of consultation (shura). The Quran, in describing the qualifications of true believers, states "...and whose rule in all matters of common concern is consultation among themselves." (Quran 42:38). "\n\nPlease go to the website I listed in the sources. It has much more information on women and politics in Islam. This is where I got the information I posted here for you.
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Try this website for starters:\n\nwww.religoustolerance.org
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It depends what you mean. If you mean when did people start to worship a God or Goddess, then evidence of early pagan religions have been found in cave paintings! So a long long long time ago\n\nEDIT: Just thought if you mean when did organised religion start, I know that Egyptian civilization can be traced back as far as 5000 bc ish, I think that when the very early form of their religion came into being. Not sure if theres any that are older.
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Woman preachers are alright by me.The church that my In-laws attend has a husband and wife team as preachers. I also have listened to female Chaplains in the military that were quite good and knowledgeable. There are alot of intolerant people in the world who do not believe in females in the pulpit. Pay them no mind. God bless you and keep spreading the word.
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Hinduism, Islam, Budhism, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism are main
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You may find few here:\nhttp://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/women.htm
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Most important, have her learn about all religions, not just Christianity, and not just "live" religions. What's the historical context behind religions -- how were they created and used, and why? What's different between Zeus and the Christian God? Who's right? Why? To paraphrase Richard Dawkins, there are many religions. Everyone's an atheist about every religion but their own, I just take it one God further.\n\nHistory is good. Aristotle, Pythagoras, Galileo, etc. all had wildly varying affects on or from the church. Why is that? What were the arguments that caused Christian fragmentation? What was considered heretical during the Inquisition?\n\nHave her read about interesting scientists, like Feynman's books. Read A Brief History of Time or A Short History of Nearly Everything. Rent Carl Sagan's Cosmos and watch it together.\n\nTalk to her. Have her get used to questioning assumptions, searching for answers, and not taking the intellectually lazy way out. Have her be OK with uncertainty and not knowing something (but wanting to learn it).\n\nTeach her the basic scientific method (observe, hypothesize, test). Explain Occam's Razor. Demonstrate how they work.\n\nLet her play. Let her see that beauty, and magic, and love, and life, and happiness, and goodness, don't require an invisible omniscient all-powerful deity to exist. Teach her that morals don't come from fear of hell, but from respect for others and herself.\n\nAnd, maybe, "accidentally" set http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ as her browser home page ;-)
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Besides the ovbious male-female definition, goddesses and gods are separated philosophically in the terms of patriarchal religions (such as the abrahamic jewdaism, christianism and islam, that are cousins) and matriarchal religions, such as the old european religions of druidry, asatru and traditional witchcraft (not wicca because it is modern).\n\nIn patriarcal religions, that started with the polytheistic olympics in ancient greeks, male figures rule the world... and if there are goddesses there they ahave a male like personality (like athenea).\n\nIn matriarchal religions the male-female polarities tend to be more balanced, attributing aspects of ruling to each gender. I.E. fertility and creativity to female, and strength and endurance to male.
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First of all, If you change your religion for a woman, then you are insulting God. Changing your religion for any reason other than a sincere desire to follow God with your whole heart, is in reality, saying that whatever the reason you changed (in your case maybe a woman), that reason is more valuable to you than God is. Cry out to God, night and day, give yourself no rest until you have found the Way the Truth, and the Life.
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Beautiful Human females with rather large breasts!\nThus began the Nephilim.\n\nLoL, I love mythology!