Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Silver Medalist, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion (Eastern/Western) CategoryThis groundbreaking book explores Buddhist thought and culture, from multiple Buddhist perspectives, as sources for feminist reflection and social action. Too often, when writers apply terms such as "woman," "femininity," and "feminism" to Buddhist texts and contexts, they begin with models of feminist thinking that foreground questions and concerns arising from Western experience. This oversight has led to many facile assumptions, denials, and oversimplifications that ignore women's diverse social and historical contexts. But now, with the tools of feminist analysis that have developed in recent decades, constructs of the feminine in Buddhist texts, imagery, and philosophy can be examined—with the acknowledgment that there are limitations to applying these theoretical paradigms to other cultures. Contributors to this volume offer a feminist analysis, which integrates gender theory and Buddhist perspectives, to Buddhist texts and women's narratives from Asia. How do Buddhist concepts of self and no-self intersect with concepts of gender identity, especially for women? How are the female body, sexuality, and femininity constructed (and contested) in diverse Buddhist contexts? How might power and gender identity be perceived differently through a Buddhist lens? By exploring feminist approaches and representations of "the feminine," including persistent questions about women's identities as householders and renunciants, this book helps us to understand how Buddhist influences on attitudes toward women, and how feminist thinking from other parts of the world, can inform and enlarge contemporary discussions of feminism.

Women in Buddhism. --- Women --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Woman (Buddhism) --- Buddhism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sex --- Women --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Woman (Buddhism) --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Doctrines. --- Sex - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Buddhism - Doctrines.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Rita Gross and Rosemary Radford Ruether have long been known for their feminist contributions to Buddhism and Christianity, respectively. In this book, they talk candidly about what these traditions mean to them in both their liberating as well as problematic aspects. Throughout the book, their life stories provide the rich soil, perhaps even the rationale, for their theological and spiritual development. Despite the marked differences in their life histories and their respective religious faiths, Gross and Radford Ruether achieve surprising unanimity on the paramount issue: what engaged Buddhism and enlightened Christianity can offer in the struggle to create a new future for the planet."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Women --- Christianity and other religions --- Buddhism --- Feminism --- Women and religion. --- Ecofeminism --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Christian feminism --- Woman (Buddhism) --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- Lamaism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Buddhism --- Buddhist nuns --- Women in Buddhism --- Women --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- J1843 --- J4176 --- J1865 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- priesthood (priests, monks, nuns) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- relation with society --- Nuns --- Women Buddhist priests --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Woman (Buddhism)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Women in Buddhism. --- Woman (Buddhism) --- Feminism --- Buddhism --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Doctrines. --- Women --- Women in Buddhism --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Doctrines --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Emancipation --- Buddhist feminism --- Feminism - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Buddhism - Doctrines.