Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Women's Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses
  • 3. Women's Devotion to Adonis
  • 4. Women's Devotion to Dionysos
  • 5. Rites of Roman Matrons
  • 6. Women's Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman World
  • 7. Women's Religious Offices in Greco-Roman Paganism
  • 8. Jewish Women's Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources
  • 9. Jewish Women's Religious Lives and Offices in the Greco-Roman Diaspora
  • 10. Autonomy, Prophecy, and Gender in Early Christianity
  • 11. Heresy as Women's Religion: Women's Religion as Heresy
  • 12. Women's Leadership and Offices in Christian Communities
  • 13. Women's Religious Leadership and Offices in Retrospect
  • Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Women's Religions.