Beyond belief: Religion as a motivating force for 5 women suffragists

Many might assume the feminists who fought for women’s right to vote were casting off the shackles of religion.There were certainly some of those. But many suffragists who pushed for the 19th Amendment, ratified 100 years ago today (Aug. 18), had a complex relationship with faith.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the first leaders of the movement, famously wrote of the Christian Bible, “I know no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.”In 1895, she