In Our Own Voices recovers the historical contributions of women to American religion, including primary source documents from diaries, letters, speeches, sermons, essays, and books by women from seventeenth-century colonial settlements in North America to today. Selections are from Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish women; African-American women; evangelical women; women in social reform movements; women in traditions of preaching and ordination; women in utopian and communitarian traditions; and Native American, Muslim, and Buddhist women. Westminster John Knox Press.