Buddhist feminist theology; gender; humanity; feminism; religious studies; androcentric model
摘要
The author of this book 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 chapters in this book represent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism. The introductory chapter, written specifically for this volume, summarizes the conclusions she 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 chapters reveal the range of scholarship and reflection found in the author'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.
目次
Part One Introductory Materials Introducing Chapter 1 How Did this ever Happen to Me?
Part Two Five Essays on Method Chapter 2 Androcentrism and Androgyny in the Methodology of History of Religions Chapter 3 Where Have We Been? Where do We Need to Go? Chapter 4 The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies Chapter 5 Methodology: Tool or Trap? Chapter 6 What Went Wrong?
Part Three Theory Applied Chapter 7 Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience among Native Australians Chapter 8 Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon Chapter 9 The Prepatriarchal Hypothesis
Part Four Feminist Theology Chapter 10 Steps toward Feminine Imagery in Jewish Theology Chapter 11 Is the (Hindu) Goddess a Feminist? Chapter 12 Life-Giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual Chapter 13 Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions
Part Five Buddhist Feminism Chapter 14 The Clarity in the Anger Chapter 15 Why (Engaged) Buddhists Should Care about Gender Issues Chapter 16 The Dharma of Gender Chapter 17 Yeshe Tsogyel Chapter 18 Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority Chapter 19 Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? Chapter 20 Being a North American Buddhist Woman
