In the 19th century, two high-society sisters take their inheritance on a journey to explore the Holy Land in Janet Soskice's The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels.

The mikveh, a ritual bath for women the Orthodox Jewish faith, goes under the feminist microscope with liberating and limiting conclusions in Varda Polak-Sahm's The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh.

A textured, well-written postmodern story of faith.

A book about women who honor organized religion but struggle with their second-class status within it.

A journalist's look at an ultra-conservative, ultra-patriarchal vangelical Protestant movement.