Religion took a central place in the political, social, and personal lives of early modern people. While consistently used to keep women in a subordinate position, scripture and religious experience could also present an empowering force, since these were among the few topics permissible to early modern women writers. This has resulted in a wide and varied body of works produced in English by female religious poets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These poets were writing across the British Isles, the Continent, and the New World, and belonged to all known denominations. They wrote in diverse genres, ranging from paraphrases and translations to meditations and love poetry, often mixing the devotional with the personal and everyday. They published their work in many forms, from manuscript to printed book, anonymously or under their own name, during their own lifetimes or posthumously. This chapter provides an introductory overview of the wide range of religious poetry produced by women in this period. Divided into three main genres of religious verse—biblically inspired verse, lyric poetry, and longer poems—it discusses the works of a number of poets, including Anne Locke, Anne Askew, Mary Sidney Herbert, Elizabeth Melville, Anne Wharton, Anne Southwell, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Roper, Lucy Hutchinson, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, “Eliza,” Hester Pulter, Elizabeth Major, Elizabeth Newell, Mary Cary, Katherine Philips, Anne Bradstreet, An Collins, Dame Gertrude More, Katherine Sutton, Mary Mollineux, Julia Palmer, and Anne Dowriche.