Women and Religion: Alternative Perspectives -- Introduction: The Last Frontier / The Goddess - Woman Equation in Sakta Tantras / Women in the Catholic Church / Women, Psychology and Religion / The Hidden Woman and the Feminine -- The Forgotten Women of Anuradhapura: 'Her Story' Replaced by 'History' / 'Mother' Victoria Vera Piedad as a Mutya Figure: A Study of an Archetypal Image of the self / Suprema Isabel Suarez / Parallel Worlds of Madhobi Ma, 'Nectar Mother': My Encounter with a Twentieth-Century Tantric Saint / 'Real' Men, Naked Women and the Politics of Paradise: The Archetype of Lal Ded / Perspectives on Violence -- Righteous Violence and Non-Violence: An Inseparable Dyad of Hindu Tradition / Theological Reflections on Violence Against Women (A Catholic Perspective) / Violence and the Feminine in Islam: A Case Study of the Zikris