Women in Buddhism and Hinduism
The name of the earliest Hindu sacred texts?
What are the Vedas
The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible
What is the Torah
Head coverings worn by Muslim women
What are hijabs
The goddess of wisdom and war as well as
being associated with male rites of passage in ancient Greek society
Who is Athena
The protagonist in the book Home Fire
Who is Isma Pasha
The number of additional conditions the Buddha demanded from females in order to become monastics
What is eight
Jesus appear to her first after he resurrected
Who was Mary Magdalene
The primary religious text of Islam
What is the Qur'an
This Greek heroine is upheld as the model wife
Who is Alcestis
The Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus
What is Antigone
The name of the earliest Theravada Buddhist text that depicts the spirituality of women in Buddhism
What is Therigatha
The female figure in Judaic mythology, theorized to be the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon
Who is Lilith
The country with the highest Muslim population
What is Indonesia
This goddess is associated with female rites of passage in ancient Greek society
Who is Artemis (Diana)
The meaning of hagiography
What is the biography of the life of a saint
A widow's death by fire or burial alive in Hinduism
What is Sati
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says women must do this to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
What is make themselves male
The mystical form of Islam where women are most prominent
What is Sufism
To be a mother of a hero in Greek myth a female had to experience this
What is divine raptus
The year that Eve's Apology in Defense of Women by Amelie Lanyer was written
What is 1611
The name of one of the leading male disciples of the Buddha, who argued on behalf of female monastics
Who is Ananda
This early Christian writer called women "the devil's gateway."
Who was Tertullian
The most famous Sufi female saint of Islam
Who is Rabi'ah
This great architect/sculptor made a the giant statue of Athena
Who was Phidias
The female in early Christianity, who baptized herself, provides the earliest example of female cross-dressing in Christian literature
Who is Thecla