Christine Schenk, CSJ, is a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, a Roman Catholic religious order, and the retired cofounder of FutureChurch, an international coalition of parish-centered Catholics working for full participation of all Catholics in church life and leadership. Currently, her award-winning column Simply Spirit appears regularly in the National Catholic Reporter. She is one of three nuns featured in the critically acclaimed recent documentary Radical Grace, chronicling the sisters' work for justice in church and society.
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Introduction 1.Women and Early Christianity: Sociocultural Context 2.Women and Early Christianity: Opposition to Female Authority 3.Interpreting Early Christian Art 4.Women and Catacomb Commemorations 5.Commemorating the Dead: Roman Funerary Customs 6.Crispina and Her Sisters: Female Portraits on Christian Sarcophagi 7.More Portraits on Christian Sarcophagi 8.Women and Authority in the Fourth Century: Integrating the LiterarySources Appendices Bibliography Index