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A Garland of Feminist Reflections : Forty Years of Religious Exploration

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...

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Autor principal: Gross, Rita M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Contents; Introducing A Garland of Feminist Reflections; PART ONE . Introductory Materials; 1. How Did This Ever Happen to Me?; PART TWO . Five Essays on Method; 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?; PART THREE . Theory Applied: Three Tests; 7. Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience among Native Australians; 8. Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon.
  • 9. The Prepatriarchal HypothesisPART FOUR . Feminist Theology; 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; PART FIVE . Buddhist Feminism: Feminist Buddhism; 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.