Soaring and settling : Buddhist perspectives on contemporary social and religious issues / Rita M. Gross.
| Author/creator | Gross, Rita M. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Continuum, 1998. |
| Description | xiii, 238 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Subject | As a practicing Buddhist for over twenty years, Rita Gross has been concerned with how Eastern wisdom traditions transform our lives and are themselves transformed by contact with the wisdom of the West. In her new book, Gross clears with autobiographical and methodological issues related to being a feminist Buddhist scholar-practitioner in North America. Next, she considers major "lifestyle" or social issues, arranged to proceed through the life cycle from conception to death and grieving. Here are such matters as population control, work and family, environmental ethics, and a personal approach to finitude and death. Finally, she turns to properly theological questions, such as immanence and transcendence in women's religious experience and expression, the use of goddess images in Buddhism, and several fascinating practices from Gross's own Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. |
| Local note | Little-321426--305131022622R |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP30.00 0. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gross, Rita M. Soaring and settling. New York : Continuum, 1998 |
| LCCN | 98030086 |
| ISBN | 0826411134 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780826411136 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BQ4570.S6 G767 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |