Socio-Religious Activism of Women in Christian Missionaries and Islamic Movements

Sumaiyah Ahmed

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.63642

Socio-Religious Activism of Women in Christian Missionaries and Islamic Movements

Author(s)	Dr. Sumaiyah Ahmed
Country	India
Abstract	The rising tide of educating and empowering women has considerably influenced the lives of women in every walk of life throughout the world in the present 21st century. The part of religious activism in people’s lives has also ignited in terms of including more and more women into the religious realms and missions owing to the general awareness and the progress followed by the revolutions occurred worldwide in the past two centuries. Regarding women’s ordinance in churches, the women were given rapid responses and those who approved this, used faith claims and Biblical examples to bring out God’s approval for it. Then the time had experienced the traditional view as well as the egalitarian view of the status and roles of women in Christian missionaries. This new phenomenon is still being fiercely debated. The Islamic movements were also seen following the footsteps of the Christian missionaries in providing the space for women to live and voluntarily play the role of Daiyas (missionaries). Though for many reasons, Islamist women have often been less visible and less spoken compare to their male counterparts, however, one cannot deny their active participation in the Islamic movements. The pragmatism of women in these Islamic movements is what helped them overcome the boundaries of society. Hence, allowed them to continue to play a significant role in these movements not only in the social aspect but in the religious spheres as well. This paper aims to study the unconventional similarities and differences between the status, role and activism of women in Christian missionaries and in Islamic movements and the importance of that as well as the contributions of both counterparts of different religious affiliations in the path of God. Since, this comparison is unstudied and unique hence, this study may be a valuable contribution in the field of interfaith dialogue.
Keywords	Christian missionaries, Islamic movements, Female missionaries, Islamist women, Interfaith dialogue etc.
Field	Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-17
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.63642

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