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Women and Religion: General, Comparative, Interfaith Views

Information on women and religion: either general information across faith lines, comparing views in several faiths, or looking at women with an interfaith perspective.
Laura Ormiston Chant: "Duty of God to Man"
A British religious thinker addresses the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions on the subject of unity beneath religions.
Julia Ward Howe: "What Is Religion?" 1893
  An address Howe delivered at the Parliament of the World's Religions, one of the events at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, World' Fair, Chicago.
Women in America: Religion
Travelers to America in 1820-1842 describe their observations on the relationship of women and religion.

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