The_Rise_Of_Chrisianity

The Rise Of Chrisianity The Rise of Christianity Christian women enjoyed a higher status than pagan women because of an initial shift in sex ratios, which resulted from Christian doctrines, which prohibited abortion and infanticide. Modern archeology and historical demography also helped with the status of women in the early church. A superior birthrate in Christian women also helped them gain a higher status. They also achieved a higher status due to the many advantages they had over pagan women. For many years’ men out numbered women in the Greco-Roman world, it was estimated that for every 131 males there were only about 100 females. This was caused from a high mortality rate and also abortion, which was a major cause of death among women in this period. Many things were different for Christian women, in Rome there was a 15/18 ratio of men to women, which would indicate that women were more, predominate then men. Another reason was because Christians prohibited all forms of infanticide and abortion; this helped the imbalance of men and women of the Christian religion. But this alone could not have been the only reason for the women outnumbering the men. The other factor in this was women were women, christian, pagan, fertility, men, status, higher, church, pagans, infanticide, greco-roman, christians, within, abortion, population, married, marriage, low, factor, enjoyed, world, substantial, sex, rate, major, held, female, culture, christianity, very, rise, remarry, reason, ratio, prohibited