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Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues
Author Gross, Rita M.
Date1998
Pages238
PublisherContinuum
LocationNew York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
KeywordBuddhism -- Social aspects.; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Buddihism.; Woman (Buddhism)
Table of contentsOverview: Buddhist Practice, Feminism, and Social Concern

PART I. 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

PART II. 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

PART III. 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.
ISBN0826411134; 9780826411136
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