This book discuses the position of the women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sigh, and Baha'i, faiths for the first time in a single volume.

Arvind Sharma is Professor at McGill University. He is the editor of the two other volumes in this trilogy, Women in World Religions and the upcoming Today's Woman in World Religions, both published by SUNY Press.