Soaring and settling : Buddhist perspectives on contemporary social and religious issues /: Buddhist perspectives on contemporary social and religious issues. (1998)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rita M. Gross.
• Other Names: Gross, Rita M
• Contents: Overview: Buddhist Practice, Feminism, and Social Concern -- pt. 1. The Road Less Chosen: Becoming a Feminist Buddhist Scholar-Practitioner -- Introduction: Autobiography and Feminist Method -- 1. The Female Body and Precious Human Birth: An Essay on Anger and Meditation -- 2. Crying in the Prophetic Voice as a Buddhist Feminist -- 3. Why Me? Reflections of a Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up -- 4. Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Buddhist Scholar-Practitioner -- pt. 2. Soaring and Settling Buddhism Engaged in Contemporary Social Issues -- Introduction: Meditation, Impermanence, and Social Change -- 5. Soaring and Settling: Riding the Winds of Change -- 6. Helping the Iron Bird Fly: Western Buddhists and Issues of Authority -- 7. Interdependence and Detachment: Toward a Buddhist Environmental Ethic -- 8. Finding Renunciation and Balance in Western Buddhist Practice: Work, Family, Community, and Friendship -- 9. Buddhist Values for Overcoming Pro-natalism and Consumerism -- 10. Children, Children's Rights, and Family Well-being in Buddhist Perspective -- 11. Impermanence, Nowness, and Non-judgment: Appreciating Finitude and Death -- pt. 3. Buddhist Perspectives in Feminist Theology -- Introduction: What Is Buddhist Theology? -- 12. Immanence and Transcendence in Women's Religious Experience and Expression: A Nontheistic Perspective -- 13. Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess -- 14. The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism: Reflections of a Buddhist Feminist -- 15. "I Will Never Forget to Visualize That Vajrayogini Is My Body and Mind" -- 16. Life-giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 294.3/37; Buddhism -- Social aspects; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Buddihism; Women -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Bouddhisme -- Aspect social; Féminisme -- Aspect religieux -- Bouddhisme; Femmes -- Aspect religieux -- Bouddhisme; RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General; Buddhism -- Social aspects; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Women -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Boeddhisme; Feminisme; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441170132; 1441170138
• Related ISBNs: 0826411134; 9780826411136
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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