Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791414033
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the core teachings of Buddhism promote gender equity rather than male dominance, despite the often sexist practices found in Buddhist institutions throughout history.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834841312
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender. At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls “the prison of gender roles”? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the prison of gender roles remain so inescapable? Gross uses the lenses of Buddhist philosophy to deconstruct the powerful concept of gender and its impact on our lives. In revealing the inadequacies involved in clinging to gender identity, she illuminates the suffering that results from clinging to any kind of identity at all.
Author: Paula M. Cooey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriarchy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630871788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Book Description
Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various religions is true for all people on earth is equivalent to the belief in a flat earth. Both notions have become untenable, given contemporary knowledge about religion. Even though many people are still troubled by the existence of religious diversity today, that diversity is a fact of life. Religious diversity should be no more troubling to religious people than the fact that the earth is round and circles the sun. This provocative book, based on the author's longtime practice of Buddhism and comparative study of religion, provides tools with which one can truly appreciate religious diversity as a gift and resource rather than as a deficiency or a problem to be overcome. After we accept diversity as inevitable and become comfortable with it, diversity always enriches life--both nature and culture.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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A professor of philosophy and religion surveys feminist studies of the history of Judaism and Christianity and discusses the changes feminism has wrought in the study of women's religious lives and in religious ritual and leadership.
Author: Hsiao-Lan Hu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438439342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.
Author: Peter N. Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 086171539X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Book Description
This book grew out of the conference, Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2005. The conference brought together students, scholars, Buddhist teachers, practitioners, artists, activists, and healers to explore the diverse experiences of women practising Buddhism in contemporary America. The pieces here centre on issues of practice, bringing to bear women's particular experiences of Buddhism as it is spreading to North America and taking root in new contexts. They celebrate the ways in which women are changing Buddhism and explore the array of issues that women as Buddhists face today. Contributors include those recognizable as Buddhist teachers, as well as well-known (and even famous) practitioners.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520255860
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. The essays in this book represent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism.
Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416877
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Book Description
This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149858103X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Book Description
In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to address the proverbial elephant in the room – whiteness.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791414033
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Book Description
This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the core teachings of Buddhism promote gender equity rather than male dominance, despite the often sexist practices found in Buddhist institutions throughout history.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834841312
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
View
Book Description
A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender. At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls “the prison of gender roles”? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the prison of gender roles remain so inescapable? Gross uses the lenses of Buddhist philosophy to deconstruct the powerful concept of gender and its impact on our lives. In revealing the inadequacies involved in clinging to gender identity, she illuminates the suffering that results from clinging to any kind of identity at all.
Author: Paula M. Cooey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriarchy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630871788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
View
Book Description
Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various religions is true for all people on earth is equivalent to the belief in a flat earth. Both notions have become untenable, given contemporary knowledge about religion. Even though many people are still troubled by the existence of religious diversity today, that diversity is a fact of life. Religious diversity should be no more troubling to religious people than the fact that the earth is round and circles the sun. This provocative book, based on the author's longtime practice of Buddhism and comparative study of religion, provides tools with which one can truly appreciate religious diversity as a gift and resource rather than as a deficiency or a problem to be overcome. After we accept diversity as inevitable and become comfortable with it, diversity always enriches life--both nature and culture.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
View
Book Description
A professor of philosophy and religion surveys feminist studies of the history of Judaism and Christianity and discusses the changes feminism has wrought in the study of women's religious lives and in religious ritual and leadership.
Author: Hsiao-Lan Hu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438439342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
View
Book Description
A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.
Author: Peter N. Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 086171539X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
View
Book Description
This book grew out of the conference, Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2005. The conference brought together students, scholars, Buddhist teachers, practitioners, artists, activists, and healers to explore the diverse experiences of women practising Buddhism in contemporary America. The pieces here centre on issues of practice, bringing to bear women's particular experiences of Buddhism as it is spreading to North America and taking root in new contexts. They celebrate the ways in which women are changing Buddhism and explore the array of issues that women as Buddhists face today. Contributors include those recognizable as Buddhist teachers, as well as well-known (and even famous) practitioners.
Author: Rita M. Gross
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520255860
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 349
View
Book Description
Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. The essays in this book represent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism.
Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416877
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476
View
Book Description
This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149858103X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
View
Book Description
In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to address the proverbial elephant in the room – whiteness.
