Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology

This book establishes how Buddhism in the Insight Meditation tradition supports "remarkable relational resilience" for women who are of African descent and same-sex loving, yet living in a society that often invalidates women, African-Americans, LGBTQ people, and non-Christians. Pamela Ayo Yetunde explores the psycho-sexual experiences of African-American Buddhist lesbians, and shows that their abilities to be in healthy relationships are made possible through their Buddhist practices and communities, even in the face of invisibilizing forces related to racial, gender, sexuality, and religious discrimination and oppression.

List of contents

1. What is Buddhism, and what is Buddhism in the Insight Meditation Community (IMC)?.- 2. Womanism and the Absence of Explicit Black Buddhist Lesbian-Black Christian Straight Interdependence in Foundational Womanist Theological Scholarship.- 3. The Spiritual Practices and Experiences of African-American Buddhist Lesbians in IMC.- 4. Self, No Self, and the Paradoxes of Self and No Self Preservation.- 5. African-American Women Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Writers on Self and No Self.- 6. Object Relations in East and West - Self, No Self, The Abhidhamma, and W. R. D. Fairbairn.- 7. Wholeness as Object Liberation - The Efficacy of Buddhist Lovingkindness Meditation.- 8. Conclusions and Counseling Recommendations.

About the author

Pamela Ayo Yetunde is Assistant Professor for Pastoral Care and Counseling and Director of the Interreligious Chaplaincy program at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Ayo Yetunde
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319944531
• ISBN: 978-3-31-994453-1
• No. of pages: 135
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 214 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: X, 135 p.
• Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice; Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; C, Sociology of Religion, Psychology, Buddhism, Religion: general, Theology, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Sociology & anthropology, Religion and Philosophy, Religion and sociology, Religion and Psychology, Psychology and religion, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Black Theology, Religion and Gender, Gender identity—Religious aspects, buddhism;pastoral counseling;gender;homosexuality;Abhidhamma