A garland of feminist reflections: Forty years of religious exploration

A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of Religious Exploration

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  Gross, Rita M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

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References (146)

1. Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross, eds., Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, 3rd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001)
2. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993)
3. Gross, Feminism and Religion: An Introduction (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).
4. Jonathan Landaw and Andy Weber, Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1993)
5. Rudy Jansen, The Book of Buddhas: Ritual Symbolism Used on Buddhist Statuary and Ritual Objects (Diver, Holland: Binkey Kok Publications, 1990).
6. See Khenpo Nyoshul, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage (A Spiritual History of the Teachings of Natural Great Perfection) (Johnson City, CA: Padma Press, 2003).
7. Rita M. Gross, "Three Strikes and You're Out: An Autobiography at Mid- Life," in A Time to Weep, A Time to Sing: Faith Journeys of Women Scholars of Religion, eds. Mary Jo Meadow and Carole A. Rayburn (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985), pp. 30-46
8. Rita M. Gross and Rosemary Radford Ruether, Religious Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian-Feminist Conversation (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 25-47.
9. Gross and Ruether, Religious Feminism, pp. 33-5.
10. Rita M. Gross, "'Finding Renunciation and Balance in American Buddhism: Work, Family, Community, and Friendship," in Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues (New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 94-107
11. Rita M. Gross, "Some Reflections on Community and Survival," Buddhist-Christian Studies Journal 22 (2003): 3-19.
12. Rita M. Gross, "Impermanence, Nowness, and Non-Judgment: Appreciating Finitude and Death," in Soaring and Settling, pp. 140-51.
13. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 291-317
14. Rita M. Gross, Feminism and Religion: An Introduction (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), pp. 5-28.
15. Kari Mikko Vesala and Heikki Pesonnen, "Religion and Relations: The Social Dimension of Methodological Arguments," in How to Do Comparative Religion? Three Ways, Many Goals, ed. Rene Gothani (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005), p. 207.
16. Rosemary Radford Ruether: Religious Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 39-44.
17. Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, eds., Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996).
18. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 305-17.
19. Rita M. Gross, "The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies," in The Researcher Experience in Qualitative Research, eds. Susan Diemert Moch and Marie F. Gates (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000), pp. 163-77.
20. Rita M. Gross, "Hindu Female Deities as a Resource in the Contemporary Rediscovery of the Goddess," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46, no. 3 (September 1978): 269-91.
21. Grace G. Burford, "Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion in Feminist Theology," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 16, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 85.
22. Deborah F. Sawyer and Diane M. Cutler, eds., Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), p. 24.
23. Rita M. Gross, "Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions," Feminist Theology 26 (January 2001): 83-101
24. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Other People's Myths (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988), p. 18.
25. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany, NY: Sate University of New York Press, 1993)
26. Rita M. Gross, Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues (New York: Continuum, 1998).
27. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993)
28. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship (New York: Teachers College Press, 1992).
29. Kunkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989).
30. Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross, Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1989).
31. William E. Paden, Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988).
32. Rene Gothoni, ed., How to Do Comparative Religion? Three Ways, Many Goals (Berlin: Walter de Gruter, 2005), pp. 149-66.
33. Rita M. Gross, "Excuse Me, but What's the Question? Isn't Religious Diversity Normal?" in The Myth of Religious Superiority: A Multi- Religious Exploration, ed. Paul Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005), pp. 75-87.
34. Kathryn Young, "Having Your Cake and Eating It Too," Journal of the American Academy of Religion I 61, no. 1 (March 1999): 167-84.
35. Ray L. Hart, "Religious and Theological Studies in American Higher Education," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 67, no. 1 (March 1991): 715-827.
36. Rita M. Gross, "Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Go? Women's Studies and Gender in Religion and Feminist Theology," in Gender, Religion, and Diversity, eds. Ursula King and Tina Beattie (London: Continuum, 2004), pp. 17-27
37. Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion: A Study of the Element of the Sacred in the History of Religions (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1963).
38. Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth (New York: Harper and Row, 1958).
39. Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall, trans. Stephen Becker (New York: Avon Books, 1969), p. 190.
40. Carol P. Christ's feminist quotation and retelling of this story in her book Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987), pp. 20-21.
41. Eleanor McLaughlin, "The Christian Past: Does It Hold a Future for Women?" in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, eds. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979), pp. 93-106.
42. Rita M. Gross, "Tribal Religion: Aboriginal Australia," in Women in World Religions, ed. Arvind Sharma (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), pp. 37-58.
43. W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization: A Study of an Australian Tribe, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, Harper Torchbooks, 1958), p. 384.
44. A.P. Abbie, The Original Australians (New York: American Elsevier, 1969), p. 125.
45. C.H. Berndt, "Women and the 'Secret Life,'" in Man in Aboriginal Australia (Sydney: Kegan and. Robertson, 1964), p. 274.
46. R.M. Berndt and C.H. Berndt, Sexual Behavior in Arnhem Land, Viking Ford Publications in Anthropology 16 (New York: Viking, 1951), pp. 89-90.
47. K. Langloh Parker, The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia (London: Archibald Constable, 1905), pp. 56-58.
48. R. Piddington, "Karadjeri Initiation," Oceania 3, no. 1 (1932): 83.
49. Phyllis Kaberry, Aboriginal Woman: Sacred and Profane (Philadelphia: Blakiston Co., 1939), pp. 242-45.
50. Ursula McConnel, Myths of the Munkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957), pp. 135-43.
51. R. M. Berndt and C.H. Berndt, The World of the First Australians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), p. 237
52. Berndt and Berndt, Man, Land, and Myth: The Gunwinggu People (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1970), p. 116.
53. R. M. Berndt, Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952).
54. R. M. Berndt, Kunapipi: A Study of an Australian Aboriginal Religious Cult (New York: International Universities Press, 1951).
55. M.F. Ashley-Montague, "The Origin of Subincision in Australian," Oceania 8, no. 2 (1937): 204-7.
56. Rita M. Gross, "Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience in the Religion of Aboriginal Australians," in Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, 3rd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001), pp. 301-10
57. Rita M. Gross, "Primal Traditions: The Example of Aboriginal Australia," in Women and World Religions, ed. Arvind Sharma (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), pp. 37-58.
58. Elisabeth Bernard, Chinnamasta: The Aweful Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Goddess (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994)
59. Brown, The Triumph of the Goddess (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990)
60. Thomas B. Coburn, Devi Mahatmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1985)
61. Kathleen M. Erndl, Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
62. John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds., The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Religious Studies Series, 1982)
63. Pupal Jayakar, The Earth Mother (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books, 1980)
64. David Kinsley's Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in Hindu Religious Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986)
65. Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely, trans., Grace and Mercy in her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess (Boulder, CO: Great Eastern, 1982)
66. Tracy Pintchman, The Rise of the Goddess in Hindu Tradition (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1994)
67. William S. Sax, Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
68. William Paden, Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988), p. 164.
69. Cynthia Eller, Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America (New York: Crossroad, 1993), pp. 150-84.
70. Lionel Tiger, Men in Groups (New York: Random House, 1969)
71. George Gilder, Sexual Suicide (New York: Quadrangle, 1973).
72. Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987), pp. 24-28.
73. David Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine Feminine (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), p. 18.
74. Peggy Reeves Sanday, Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 4.
75. M. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies, Female of the Species (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975). p. 190.
76. Ralph Mannheim, trans., Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J. J. Bachofen (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967).
77. Anne Barstow, "The Prehistoric Goddess," in The Book of the Goddess: Past and Present, ed. Carl Olson (New York: Crossroads, 1983), pp. 7-28.
78. Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989)
79. Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1991).
80. Elinor Gadon, The Once and Future Goddess (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989)
81. Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess (New York: Penguin, 1991).
82. Carol P. Christ, Laughter of Aphrodite (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987).
83. David Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 11-19
84. Katherine K. Young, "Goddesses, Feminists, and Scholars," in The Annual Review of Women in World Religions, eds. Katherine K. Young and Arvind Sharma (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991), pp. 105-79
85. Joan B. Townsend, "The Goddess: Fact, Fallacy, and Revitalization Movement," in Goddesses in Religions and Modern Debate, ed. Larry W. Hurtado (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), pp. 180-203.
86. Rosemary Ruether, God and Gaia (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1992 ), pp. 143-65.
87. Townsend, "The Goddess," p. 194
88. Young, "Goddesses, Feminists, and Scholars," p. 146.
89. Thornkild Jacobsen, Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 77-84.
90. Hans J. Nilssen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East: 9,000- 2,000 B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
91. Robert Ellwood, "Patriarchal Revolution in Ancient Japan: Episodes from the Nihonshoki Sujun Chronicle," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2, no. 2 (Fall 1986): 23-37.
92. Rita M. Gross, "Hindu Female Deities as a Resource in the Contemporary Rediscovery of the Goddess," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47, no. 3 (1978): 269-91.
93. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, eds., Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1975), pp. 167-73.
94. Rita M. Gross, "Female God-Language in the Jewish Context," in Womanspirit Rising, eds. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (New York: Harper and Row, 1979).
95. Rachel Adler, "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halakhah and the Jewish Woman," in Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review 7, no. 2 (Summer 1973): 77-89
96. Rita M. Gross, "On Being a Religious Jewish Woman," in Ancient Roots and Modem Meanings: A Contemporary Reader in Jewish Identity, ed. Jerry Diller (New York: Bloch, 1998).
97. Rita M. Gross, "Hindu Female Deities as a Resource in the Contemporary Rediscovery of the Goddess," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (September 1978): 269-91.
98. Carol Christ, "The Liberation of Women and the Liberation of God," in The Jewish Woman, ed. Elizabeth Koltun (New York: Schocken Books, 1976), pp. 11-17.
99. Rita M. Gross, "Hindu Female Deities as a Resource in the Contemporary Rediscovery of the Goddess," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47, no. 3 (1978): 269-91.
100. Fatima Mernissi, "Women, Saints, and Sanctuaries in Morocco," in Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, 3rd ed., ed. Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001), pp. 144-53.
101. Susan Wadley, "Hindu Women's Family and Household Rites in a North India Village," in Falk and Gross, Unspoken Worlds, pp. 103-13.
102. Lina Gupta, "Kali, the Savior," in After Patriarchy: Feminist Reconstructions of the World's Religions, eds. Paula Cooey, William R. Eackin, and Jay B. McDaniel (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1991), pp. 15-38.
103. Diana Eck, Darshan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books, 1985).
104. Rita M. Gross, "Female God-Language in a Jewish Context," in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, eds. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979), pp. 167-73
105. Gross, "Steps Toward Feminine Imagery of Deity in Jewish Theology," in On Being a Jewish Feminist, ed. Susannah Heschel (New York: Schocken Books, 1983), pp. 234-47.
106. Deborah F. Sawyer and Diane M. Cutler, eds., Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), p. 24.
107. Paul F. Knitter, No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1985).
108. Katherina von Kellenback, Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1994)
109. Leonare Siegle-Wcnschwitz, Judith Plaskow, Marie-Theres Wacker, Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes, and Aspodeld P. Long, "Special Section on Feminist Anti-Judaism," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 7, no. 2 (Fall 1991): 95-125.
110. Diana Eck and Dcvaki Jain, eds., Speaking of Faith: Global Perspective on Women, Religion, and Social Change (Philadelphia: New Society Press, 1987)
111. Rita M. Gross, Feminism and Religion: An Introduction (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), p. 49.
112. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, eds., Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979), p. 15.
113. William Paden, Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988), p. 164.
114. D. Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Benares (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), pp. 166-99.
115. Rita M. Gross, "Religious Diversity: Some Implications for Monotheism," Crosscurrents 49, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 349-66.
116. Rita M. Gross, "The Virtues and Joys of the Comparative Mirror," Boston University School of Theology Focus (Fall 1999): 9-16.
117. Cynthia Eller, Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America (New York: Crossroad, 1993), pp. 74-81.
118. Carol Christ, Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
119. Rachel Fell McDermott, "The Western Kali," in Devi: Goddesses of India, eds. John Stratton Hawley and Diana M. Marie Wulff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pp. 281-313
120. Sandy Boucher, Discovering Kwan-Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999).
121. John Cobb, Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1982), p. 49.
122. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), p. 61.
123. Judith Simmer-Brown, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Boston and London: Shambhala, 2001), p. 216.
124. Kazuaki Tanahashi, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985), p. 70.
125. Keith Dowman, trans., Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984).
126. Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1956).
127. Bhikshu Sangharakshita, A Survey of Buddhism (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1980), pp. 240-55.
128. Arthur Amiotte, "Eagles Fly Over," in Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning 1, no. 3 (September 1976): 28-41.
129. Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting through Spiritual Materialism (Berkeley, CA: Shambhala, 1973), pp. 217-34.
130. Diana Paul, Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Tradition (Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1979
131. Charlene Spretnek, ed., The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement (New York: Anchor Books, 1982), pp. 510-28, 565-73.
132. Rita M. Gross, "Bitterness and Effectiveness: Reflections on Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology," in Anima: An Experiential Journal 7, no. 1 (Fall 1980): 47-51.
133. Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1984).
134. Diana W. Paul, Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition (Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1979).
135. Rita M. Gross, "Feminism from the Perspective of Buddhist Practice," Buddhist-Christian Studies 1 (1981): 72-82.
136. Sandy Boucher, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism, rev. ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).
137. Kim Gutschow, Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2004).
138. Rita M. Gross, "Women's Issues in Contemporary North American Buddhism" in The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed. R. Keller and R.R. Ruether (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 1207-14.
139. Jerome Edou, Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1996).
140. Sandy Eastoak, ed., Dharma Family Treasures: Sharing Buddhism with Children (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1994).
141. Karen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood (Boston: Shambhala, 2006).
142. Sumi Loundon, ed., Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001).
143. C.A.F. Rhys Davids and K.R, Norman, trans., Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns (Therigatha) (Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1989).
144. Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).
145. Rita M. Gross, "The Female Body and Precious Human Birth: An Essay on Anger and Meditation," in Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues (New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 7-12.
146. Rita M. Gross, "Excuse Me, but What's the Question? Isn't Religious Diversity Normal?" in The Myth of Religious Superiority: A Multifaith Exploration, ed. Paul Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005), pp. 75-87.