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Zusatztext "This compilation only whets the reader's appetite for another such volume." Informationen zum Autor Rita M. Gross is Professor Emerita of Comparative Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin! Eau Claire. She is the author and editor of many books! including Religious Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian-Feminist Conversation . Klappentext "Rita Gross is always a cutting edge mind. To bring this whole range of thought together is an important contribution. This is an important and distinctive work, and the scholarship is superior."—Rosemary Ruether, author of Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (UC Press) Zusammenfassung Represents the major aspects of the author's work and provides an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism. This work demonstrates how feminist scholars in the 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS Introducing A Garland of Feminist Reflections 1. How Did This Ever Happen to Me? A Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up II. 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? Key Questions for Women Studies in Religion and Feminist Theology 4. The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies 5. Methodology: Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective 6. What Went Wrong? Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles III. 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: A Report on Twenty-Some Years of Feminist Reflection 9. The Prepatriarchal Hypothesis: An Assessment IV. 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 V. 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: Enlightened Consort! Great Teacher! Female Role Model 18. Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority 19. Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? A Feminist Assessment of Buddhism at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century 20. Being a North American Buddhist Woman: Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer Notes ...
