Women have always played a fundamental role in the History of Religion, and ambivalent. In primitive religions and animated shorts, the woman was seen as a receptacle of divinity, and to participate in the creative force emanating directly from the divine. There are numerous archaeological evidence of the cult of the divinity through images representing women (especially pregnant women). The woman came to be considered "sacred" and its proximity and wealth were a sign of welcome.
However, a shadow has always been with this positive assessment of women. Indeed, this "cult of women" as a sign of the divine, sometimes degenerated into sex cults, thereby enshrining the phenomenon of prostitution sacred, known in Babylon and even in ancient Greece.
On the other hand, Hinduism and Buddhism, she has not received special treatment. One reason may be the negative view in general about life and its meaning do these religions which interpret the existence as an oppressive state which must be liberated. The position of women in these societies has been ambivalent: they are the subject of a special dignity and even have suffered severe discrimination, however, are recognized as a source of joy and comfort, delight of gods and men. Despite the negative view of life, the divine world is perceived, at least in Hinduism, as joyful and empathic to man (in Buddhism the gods are silent or sporadically involved).
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, despite what many have wanted to believe from biased or ideological approaches to the Bible, women have a role. In Judaism, the matriarch is essential, as seen in the Easter ritual: in charge of lighting the candles, that is, giving birth, without which nothing can be done, the symbol of life. Moreover, Israel's history is full of heroines, like Rahab, Deborah, Ruth, Judith, or the most important of them, Esther, who avoided the extermination of the Jews under Babylonian rule, evidence of which emerged one of the most important holidays of Judaism, Purim carnival. However, after the fall of the Temple in 70 AD, Judaism became an amalgam of different traditions, in many cases have lost their biblical foundation, being based on feedback from Bible commentaries. The different currents have kept rabbinic attitudes towards women varied.
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