Being a feminist has affected more areas of my besides those that can be directly related to ecofeminism. One of these areas is religion. This semester I took a religion course in which we studied most of the major world religions and visited their local places of worship. I must say that my findings are not very pleasing. I have a massive problem with Judeo-Christian view of male superiority, and I have found that this belief thoroughly permeates most of the other major world religions as well, which is very discouraging.
Women preachers are about as abundant as scraps of meat after a shark feeding frenzy.
When one does emerge, she is usually a guest preacher from somewhere else. Women in my church are expected to sing on the choir, usher, or be on the food committee. The men are expected to be clergymen, and serve on the finance and other decision-making committees. Past experiences coupled with my recent observances have been the final stride in putting me in a kind of crisis of faith. I suppose you could say that now I am leaning towards agnosticism, or perhaps even spiritual ecofeminism.