Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sarah C. Williams -- Women, writing and the cre ation of theological cultures / Julie Melnyk -- Women and philant hropic cultures / Susan Mumm -- Women, religious ministry and fem ale institution-building / Carmen M. Mangion -- 'With fear and tr embling' : women, preaching and spiritual authority / Pamela J. Walk er -- Professionalising their faith : women, religion and the cultur es of mission and empire / Rhonda A. Semple -- Women, religion an d reform / Clare Midgley -- 'The Word made flesh' : women, religi on and sexual cultures / Sue Morgan -- More than paradoxes to off er : feminism, history and religious cultures / Jacqueline deVries - - Modernity, heterodoxy and the transformation of religious cultures / Joy Dixon -- Afterword : women, gender and the re-imagining of a 'post-Christian' Britain / Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries.