A garland of feminist reflections
Subtitle: forty years of religious exploration
By: Rita M. Gross.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520255852; 9780520255869
Subjects: Feminist theology; Women -- Religius aspects; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing a garland of feminist reflections; title: How did this ever happen to me?  A Wisconsin farm girl who became a Buddhist theologian when she grew up; title: Five essays on method; title: Androcentrism and androgyny in the methodology of history of religions; title: Where have we been? Where do we need to go?  Key questions for women studies in religion and feminist theology; title: The place of the personal and the subjective in religious studies; title: Methodology: tool or trap?  Comments from a feminist point of view; title: What went wrong?  Feminism and freedom from the prison of gender roles; title: Theory applied: three tests; title: Menstruation and childbirth as ritual and religious experience among native Australians; title: Toward a new model of the Hindu pantheon: a report on twenty-some years of feminist reflection; title: The prepatriarchal hypothesis: an assessment; title: Feminist theology; title: Steps toward feminine imagery of deity in Jewish theology; title: Is the (Hindu) goddess a feminist?; title: Life-giving images in Vajrayana Buddhist ritual; title: Feminist theology as theology of religions; title: Buddhist Feminism: Feminist Buddhism; title: The clarity in the anger; title: Why (engaged) Buddhists should care about gender; title: The dharma of gender; title: Yeshe Tsogyel: enlightened consort, great teacher, female role model; title: Buddhist women as leaders and teachers of the dharma; title: Is the glass half empty or half full? a feminist assessment of Buddhism at the beginning of the twenty-first century; title: Being a North American Buddhist: reflections of a feminist pioneer.