Milda Ališauskien¿ is a professor of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Egl¿ Aleknait¿ is a senior researcher in the Social Research Center at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is a professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Introduction - Milda Ališauskien¿, Egl¿ Aleknait¿ and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; 1. Religions and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: Key Aspects of Soviet and Post-Soviet Developments - Milda Ališauskien¿, Dace Balode, Linards Rozentals, Anne Kull and Art¿ras Tereškinas; 2. Female Presidents, but not Female Priests? Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran Women's Discourse on Female Ordination and Gender Relations in Estonia, Latvia, And Lithuania - Egl¿ Aleknait¿, Anne Kull and Girts Rozners; 3. Seeking Equality: Relational and Power-based Conceptualizations of Gender (in)Equality among Latvian Women of Faith - Aivita Putnina; 4. Between Gender Equality and Religion: The Baltic Muslim Women's Quest for 'True' Islam - Morta Vid¿nait¿, Anastasia Babash and Anne Hege Grung; 5. Gender as a (non)issue in Lithuanian female Muslims' lives - Egd¿nas Räius; 6. Gender Roles and Family Practices among Pagan Women in Lithuania and Estonia: between Reconstruction of Tradition and Memories from Soviet Past? - Milda Ališauskien¿ and Liina Kilemit; 7. Gender (in)equalities in lived Christianity: Catholic and Lutheran Evangelical Women's Understanding of Gender Roles in the Family in Estonia and Latvia - Liina Kilemit, Aivita Putnina, Girts Rozners; 8. From the Demonization of LGBTQ+ to the Privatization of Intimate Citizenship in the Lithuanian Catholic Church - Art¿ras Tereškinas and Morta Vid¿nait¿; 9. Baltic Parable of Life and Death: Christian Opinions on Gendered Violence in the Context of the Istanbul Convention - Gintar¿ Poc¿, Anne Kull, and Ilva Skulte; 10. Inter- and intra-religious alliances making gender and family politics in Norway and Lithuania: What is at stake, and for whom? - Anne Hege Grung and Egl¿ Aleknait¿; 11. Intersections of Religion and Gender in Public Schools of Baltic Countries - Olga Schihalejev, Rimgail¿ Dikšait¿, Laima Geikina