In this Book
- A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of Religious Exploration
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of California Press
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 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.
Table of Contents
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- PART ONE. Introductory Materials
- 1. How Did This Ever Happen to Me?
- pp. 23-44
- PART TWO. Five Essays on Method
- pp. 45-54
- 5. Methodology: Tool or Trap?
- pp. 94-110
- 6. What Went Wrong?
- pp. 111-124
- PART THREE. Theory Applied: Three Tests
- pp. 125-130
- 8. Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon
- pp. 143-155
- 9. The Prepatriarchal Hypothesis
- pp. 156-170
- PART FOUR. Feminist Theology
- pp. 171-176
- 11. Is the (Hindu) Goddess a Feminist?
- pp. 189-197
- 14. The Clarity in the Anger
- pp. 235-244
- 16. The Dharma of Gender
- pp. 250-262
- 17. Yeshe Tsogyel
- pp. 263-280
- 18. Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority
- pp. 281-290
- 19. Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?
- pp. 291-310
- 20. Being a North American Buddhist Woman
- pp. 311-318
- Production Notes
- p. 341
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520943667
Related ISBN(s)
9780520255869
MARC Record
OCLC
667014283
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No