A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of Religious ExplorationRita 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. |
Contents
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Five Essays on Method | 45 |
Androcentrism and Androgyny in the Methodology of History of Religions | 55 |
Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Go? Key Questions for Women Studies in Religion and Feminist Theology | 65 |
The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies | 77 |
Methodology Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective | 94 |
What Went Wrong? Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles | 111 |
Theory Applied Three Tests | 125 |
Is the Hindu Goddess a Feminist? | 189 |
LifeGiving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual | 198 |
Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions | 211 |
Buddhist Feminism Feminist Buddhism | 229 |
The Clarity in the Anger | 235 |
Why Engaged Buddhists Should Care about Gender Issues | 245 |
The Dharma of Gender | 250 |
Yeshe Tsogyel Enlightened Consort Great Teacher Female Role Model | 263 |
Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience among Native Australians | 131 |
Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon A Report on TwentySome Years of Feminist Reflection | 143 |
The Prepatriarchal Hypothesis An Assessment | 156 |
Feminist Theology | 171 |
Steps toward Feminine Imagery in Jewish Theology | 177 |
Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority | 281 |
Is the Glass HalfEmpty or HalfFull? A Feminist Assessment of Buddhism at the Beginning of the Twentyfirst Century | 291 |
Being a North American Buddhist Woman Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer | 311 |
Notes | 319 |
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