Cathars regarded women as the equal of men, and Catharism offered women the chance to participate fully…

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In the first of these cases, the consolamentum was followed by a practice called the endura. This required the newly consoled Cathar to refrain from taking anything except cold water while they lingered in this world. As fear of betrayal meant that the Perfect could not remain with the consoled to ensure that they did not deviate from the

In most religious thinking the body is equated with the earth and women.