Introduction: untangling modernities. -- Nativism and the politics of gender in Catholicism and Islam. -- Imagined communities: state, religion, and gender in Jewish settlements. -- Contemporary American Catholicism and the challenge of gender equality. -- From the Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: intermarriage and conservation in the Jewish nation state. -- Seeking recognition: Women's struggle for full citizenship in the community if religious worship. -- "Subway women" and the American near East relief in Anatolia, 1919-1924. -- Global sisterhood: transnational perspectives on gender and religion. -- Feminism, democracy, and empire: Islam and the war on terror. -- Patriarchal ecumenism, feminism, and women's religious experiences in Costa Rica. -- The boundaries of liberation, the chains of freedom: urban women in 1960's Egyptian popular cinema. -- Language, gender, adn power in Morocco.

1. Women and religion
2. Religion and politics
3. Women -- Political activity