Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. He is the author of many books, including One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu and Hinduism as a Missionary Religion, and the coeditor (with Ellen Bradshaw Aitken) of The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, all published by SUNY Press.

Volume IV includes the following contributions: Our Mother Rachel by Susan Starr Sered; Mapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman-Healers (Machis) in Chile by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo; The Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs by Lee Rainey; and The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy by Vivian-Lee Nyitray.

• Susan Starr SeredOur Mother Rachel Anna Mariella BacigalupoMapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman—Healers (Machis) in Chile Lee RaineyThe Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs Vivian-Lee NyitrayThe Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy Book Review Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur(Jane I. Smith)

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. He is the author of many books, including One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu and Hinduism as a Missionary Religion, and the coeditor (with Ellen Bradshaw Aitken) of The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, all published by SUNY Press.

Volume IV includes the following contributions: Our Mother Rachel by Susan Starr Sered; Mapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman-Healers (Machis) in Chile by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo; The Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs by Lee Rainey; and The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy by Vivian-Lee Nyitray.

• Susan Starr SeredOur Mother Rachel Anna Mariella BacigalupoMapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman—Healers (Machis) in Chile Lee RaineyThe Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs Vivian-Lee NyitrayThe Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy Book Review Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur(Jane I. Smith)

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. He is the author of many books, including One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu and Hinduism as a Missionary Religion, and the coeditor (with Ellen Bradshaw Aitken) of The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, all published by SUNY Press.

Volume IV includes the following contributions: Our Mother Rachel by Susan Starr Sered; Mapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman-Healers (Machis) in Chile by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo; The Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs by Lee Rainey; and The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy by Vivian-Lee Nyitray.

• Susan Starr SeredOur Mother Rachel Anna Mariella BacigalupoMapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman—Healers (Machis) in Chile Lee RaineyThe Secret Writing of Chinese Women: Religious Practice and Beliefs Vivian-Lee NyitrayThe Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy Book Review Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur(Jane I. Smith)