Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. Ellison Banks Findly is Professor of Religion and International Studies at Trinity College.

• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Nancy FalkI. Women and the Formation of Religious Tradition The Separation of Women in Rabbinic Judaism Judith BaskinWomen, Religion and Social Change in Early Islam Jane I. SmithGargi at the King's Court: Women and Philosophic Innovation in Ancient India Ellison Banks FindlyNuns and Benefactresses: The Role of Women in the Development of Buddhism Janice D. WillisStriking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism Nancy SchusterII. Social Transformation, the Role of Women and Traditional Religious Institutions The Magdalen: Reflections on the Image of the Saint and Sinner in Christian Art Jane DillenbergerWomen and Islamic Art Walter B. DennyHindu Paradigms of Women: Images and Values Sandra P. RobinsonImages and Roles of Women in Bengali Vaisnava padavali kirtan Donna Marie WulffSacred Paradoxes: Women and Religious Plurality in Nigeria Rosalind I. J. HackettIII. Women, Religion and Revolution in the Modern World Islam, Women and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Arab Thought Yvonne Yazbeck HaddadWoman's Place and the Place of Women in the Iranian Revolution William R. DarrowReligious Aspects of Women's Role in the Nicaraguan Revolution Pauline TurnerGoddesses, Mothers, and Heroines: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the Early Nationalist Movement Lou RattéThe Soong Sisters and China's Revolutions, 1911-1936 Michael E. LestzIV. Women, Religion and the Transformation of Society in North America Iroquois Religion and Women in Historical Perspective Annemarie A. Shimony.Spirits Defend the Rights of Women: Spiritualism and Changing Sex Roles in Nineteenth-Century America Ann D. BraudeFrom Shackles to Liberation: Religion, the Grimké Sisters and Dissent Frank G. KirkpatrickThe American Catholic Bishops and Woman: From the Nineteenth Amendment to ERA Antoinette LadarolaFeminism and the Reevaluation of Women's Roles within American Jewish Life Ellen M. UmanskyContributors Index