Annual Review of Women in World Religions

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.

• 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)

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.