study of the religious history of women has advanced with giant steps during the past few years, in no small measure as a result of the efforts of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller, the general editors of the new documentary history, and Religion in America. Drs. Ruether's and Keller's joint efforts here owe much to each of their discrete contributions both to the religious history of women and to contemporary theological debates. volumes they have put together reflect a high level of scholarship as well as their informing purpose of establishing the religious past of women. Each volume consists in groups of documents that are organized in thematic chapters: Volume 1 includes Women and Revivalism, Women in Utopian Movements, The Leadership of Nuns in Immigrant Catholicism, The Jewish Woman's Encounter With Culture, The Struggle for the Right to Preach, Lay in the Protestant Tradition, and Women in Social Reform Movements; Volume 2 includes American Indian and Religion, Women and Religion in Spanish America, Women in Colonial French America, New England Women: Ideology and