| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. Ed. by Catherine A. Brekus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 340 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3102-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5800-4.)

Over twenty years ago, Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller's three-volume Women and Religion in America (1981, 1983, 1986) pioneered the scholarly recovery of female religious experience. Groundbreaking explorations followed, yet as Catherine A. Brekus observes in The Religious History of American Women, the general field of American religious studies has changed little. To paraphrase yet another book title, all the religious figures are men, all the feminists are secular, but some of us are impatient for change. This excellent collection of essays offers case studies of American religious women, each asking, "What difference does it make to include women in our narratives of American religious history?" (p. 1).

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