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For Women\u2019s World History Month, you might consider some of the great lessons about women and religion from George Mason\u2019s \u00a0Center for History and New Media<\/a>. \u00a0You\u2019ll find teaching materials with primary sources on topics like the Hindu practice of Sati, \u00a0Bhakti poets, and the Islamic empire.<\/p>\n

You can also explore the Internet Sacred Texts \u00a0Archives<\/a>\u00a0which has a page relating \u201cspecifically to women and religion from a female perspective.\u201d You\u2019ll find historic feminist texts, goddess-oriented texts, and texts from \u201cotherwise\u201d male-dominated religions.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the texts you might find; a page about the lives of Greek heroines, another with the poems of Sappho, a Hopi origin myth, and a Hindu chant extolling the thousand names of the Goddess.<\/p>\n

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