A garland of feminist reflections : forty years of religious exploration / Rita M. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Rita M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theology.

Women--Religious aspects.

Women.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Feminism.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is recognized as preeminent in Buddhist feminist theology. The essays in A Garland of Feminist Reflections represent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism. The introductory article, written specifically for this volume, summarizes the conclusions Gross has reached about gender and feminism after forty years of searching and exploring, and the autobiography, also written for this volume, narrates how those conclusions were reached. These articles reveal the range of scholarship and reflection found in Rita M. Gross's work and demonstrate how feminist scholars in the 1970's shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introducing A Garland of Feminist Reflections

1. How Did This Ever Happen to Me?

2. Androcentrism and Androgyny in the Methodology of History of Religions

3. Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Go?

4. The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies

5. Methodology: Tool or Trap?

6. What Went Wrong?

7. Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience among Native Australians

8. Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon

10. Steps toward Feminine Imagery in Jewish Theology

11. Is the (Hindu) Goddess a Feminist?

12. Life-Giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual

13. Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions

14. The Clarity in the Anger

15. Why (Engaged) Buddhists Should Care about Gender Issues

16. The Dharma of Gender

17. Yeshe Tsogyel

18. Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority

19. Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?

20. Being a North American Buddhist Woman

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-340).

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612360947

9781282360945

1282360949

9780520943667

052094366X

OCLC:

773564866