RITA M GROSS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | RITA M GROSS |
| GIVEN NAMES | RITA M |
| FAMILY NAME | GROSS |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding the Rights Questions about Religious Diversity: What Buddhists could Contribute to Discussions of Religious Diversity
This article argues that all current theologies of religion share the presupposition that differences among religions are a problem, even a mistake, and that unity or agreement would be preferable to difference and religious diversity. But theologians of religion need to start at the other end of the puzzle, conceding from the get-go that religious diversity is here to stay, is inevitable, normal, natural, and, therefore, not the major problem or…
Do Others Exist: "Buddhist Perspectives on "The Other
Do Others Exist? Buddhist Perspectives on “The Other” Rita M. Gross (bio) duality, nonduality, interdependence, Thich Nhat Hanh, inter-being, compassion From my perspective as a Buddhist, I have to say that all the questions about “the other” are secondary questions, not the primary question or the primary reality. When we begin to perceive and talk about others, we are in the realm of duality. Therefore, we are already removed from the clear, ba…
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
A Garland of Feminist ReflectionsForty Years of Religious Exploration: Forty Years of Religious Exploration
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 …
America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence: Some Comments
Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? A Feminist Assessment of Buddhism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Doctrinally, Buddhism is free of the myths and symbols that make some other religions so intractable to feminist reforms. In its philosophical views and its meditation practices, Buddhism has tremendous potential for deconstructing gender. In less than thirty years, we have gone from a situation in which almost nothing had been written about Buddhist women to a situation in which books and articles appear regularly. There is now a worldwide Buddh…
Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Religious History: Response
Margaret R. Miles, Virginia Burrus, Tazim R. Kassam, Rita M. Gross, Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Religious History [with Response], Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 45-74
Mulheres budistas como líderes e professoras
No budismo, o papel do professor de dharma (religioso) é a função mais prestigiosa, e o professor de dharma tem mais autoridade do que qualquer outro líder. Apesar de os ensinamentos budistas não conterem nenhuma doutrina que limite essa função ao homem, na prática, em toda a história budista, foram pouquíssimas as mulheres que se tornaram conhecidas como professoras de dharma. Algumas pessoas acham que essas práticas não prejudicam as mulheres, …
The dharma of gender
Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions
Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Scholar-Practitioner
PASSION AND PERIL: TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES AS A FEMINIST SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER' RITA M. GROSS In the fall of 1992, the imminent publication of my Buddhism Afier Patriarchy brought to the fore a "double-bind" facing scholars like myself who transgress traditional boundaries. The text offers a recon- struction of Buddhist tradition and understanding which decenters androcentric privilege. This bold move would not be appreciated, I feared, by any of…
A Buddhist Response
and scholars have a great deal in common when it comes to discussing dialogue and scholarship. Both seem to agree that there is no nonnormative approach to the study of religion. Rather than attempting to defend our methodology, we must simply do our work well. In my response to these fine discussions of the respectability of interreligious dialogue, I will do things. First, I will comment briefly on each of the papers, and then I will add a few …
Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon A Report on Twenty-some Years of Feminist Reflection
This article argues that the familiar triadic model of the Hindu pantheon obscures the significance of goddesses in Hinduism by incorrectly locating the major division within the Hindu pantheon along gender lines. Instead, it will be argued that the familiar ‘moksha-dharma’ tension and synthesis be used to organise the deities into a pantheon, with both female and male deities patronising both moksha and dharma
Incommensurability: Between Traditions or between Psychological Styles
Religious incommensurability may be more of a problem within religious traditions than across religious The most intractable problem may be between religiously tolerant and religiously intolerant. The central problem of overcoming incommensurability may lie in getting people to value diversity and pluralism. Since I find nothing in John Cobb's eminently sensible comments on incommensurability that I wish to dispute, my brief commentary will take …
Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
Autobiography, Mutual Transformation, and the Prophetic Voice in Buddhist Feminism
This presentation comes with a warning-The author will engage in kind of autobiographical act typical of contemporary feminist theology. Feminist theologians and scholars are much more likely to be autobiographical in their professional writing than are their more conventional colleagues, a methodological stance that often confuses or alienates outsiders to feminist discourse. Feminists, however, have strong and cogent reasons for their autobiogr…
"I Go for Refuge to the Sangha": A Response to Rosemary Ruether's Paper
liberation in which movements are engaged. Sometimes, indeed, this depth spiritual dimension is better captured by poets and song writers of nonreligious movements, than by those from a religious culture. So feminist spirituality draws on the poetry, art, and song of secular feminist and liberation movements for help in expressing its spirituality. Thus women-church is not an end in itself but part of a liberative process. This liberative process…
The Study of Religion as Religious Experience
Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives
Encounter: Extraordinary Women - Women called by Spirits: Shamans and Savants - In the Wings: Rituals for Wives and Mothers - Out of the Shadows: Women in Male-Dominated Systems - Success Stories: Women and Men in Balance or Equality
"Response to Gordon Kaufman "This Is It: Nothing Happens Next
When preparing for these meetings, before papers were received, I remember assuming that, of course, Christians would be talking about God. It was unpredictable what they might say about God, but that they would talk about God was taken for granted. It was less clear what Buddhists would say, and I awaited Buddhist papers with curiosity. It seemed that Christians expected us to talk about sunyat2 (emptiness), but I was not surprised that neither …
The Three-Yana Journey in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism
Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is a unique form of Buddhism. At this point, it is not as well or as accurately known to theologians or to the public as are some other forms of Buddhism, especially Theravadin, Zen, or Pure Land Buddhism. Because of the self-secret nature of the Vajrayana teachings and the oral transmission of most of those teachings, it can be a difficult form of Buddhism to study. Much of the popular literature on Tantra is unreliabl…
Comparative History of Religion
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION Get access Women and World Religions By Denise Lardner CarmodyAbingdon, 1979 168 pages $5.95 Rita M Gross Rita M Gross University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 2, June 1983, Pages 334-b–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LI.2.334-b Published: 01 June 1983
Studying Personal Transformation: Questions and Suggestions
My comments on Frederick Streng's paper will reflect my perspectives as a scholar trained in the history of religions and as a practicing Buddhist. (I am not a Buddhalogist.) Both perspectives, I feel, have something to contribute to interreligious dialogue and to the cross-cultural comparative study of religion; neither one is as strong when it is used alone. The way in which these perspectives are interwoven will be clear in my comments. I will…
Feminism from the Perspective of Buddhist Practice
This is neither a theoretical nor a scholarly paper, but is based entirely on my experiences as a feminist and a Buddhist. Sometimes I find it hard to explain, even to myself, how I end up acknowledging both these identities. First, of course, I was a feminist, and somewhat well established as a feminist scholar and theologian. Then I began meditating, partly to complete what I saw as an essential element in my training in comparative religions, …
Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives
Encounter: Extraordinary Women - Women called by Spirits: Shamans and Savants - In the Wings: Rituals for Wives and Mothers - Out of the Shadows: Women in Male-Dominated Systems - Success Stories: Women and Men in Balance or Equality
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
Mulheres budistas como líderes e professoras
No budismo, o papel do professor de dharma (religioso) é a função mais prestigiosa, e o professor de dharma tem mais autoridade do que qualquer outro líder. Apesar de os ensinamentos budistas não conterem nenhuma doutrina que limite essa função ao homem, na prática, em toda a história budista, foram pouquíssimas as mulheres que se tornaram conhecidas como professoras de dharma. Algumas pessoas acham que essas práticas não prejudicam as mulheres, …
Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Scholar-Practitioner
PASSION AND PERIL: TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES AS A FEMINIST SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER' RITA M. GROSS In the fall of 1992, the imminent publication of my Buddhism Afier Patriarchy brought to the fore a "double-bind" facing scholars like myself who transgress traditional boundaries. The text offers a recon- struction of Buddhist tradition and understanding which decenters androcentric privilege. This bold move would not be appreciated, I feared, by any of…
Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon A Report on Twenty-some Years of Feminist Reflection
This article argues that the familiar triadic model of the Hindu pantheon obscures the significance of goddesses in Hinduism by incorrectly locating the major division within the Hindu pantheon along gender lines. Instead, it will be argued that the familiar ‘moksha-dharma’ tension and synthesis be used to organise the deities into a pantheon, with both female and male deities patronising both moksha and dharma
Anthropological Studies
ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES Get access Australian Aboriginal Religion: Four Fascicles in One (Iconography of Religions, Section V). By RONALD M. BERNDT. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. ix+44 pages; ii+42 pages; ii+28 pages; ii+37 pages. 46 plates, 2 maps; 63 plates, 2 maps, 45 plates; 56 plates, one map. 140 guilders. ISBN 90-04-03861-2. RITA M. GROSS RITA M. GROSS University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Feminism from the Perspective of Buddhist Practice
This is neither a theoretical nor a scholarly paper, but is based entirely on my experiences as a feminist and a Buddhist. Sometimes I find it hard to explain, even to myself, how I end up acknowledging both these identities. First, of course, I was a feminist, and somewhat well established as a feminist scholar and theologian. Then I began meditating, partly to complete what I saw as an essential element in my training in comparative religions, …
Psychology of Religion
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access The Feminine Dimension of the Divine. By Joan Chamberlain Engelsman. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1979. 203 pages, notes, bibliography, index. $8.95. ISBN 0-664-24268-5. Rita M. Gross Rita M. Gross University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10…
Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures
Studying Personal Transformation: Questions and Suggestions
My comments on Frederick Streng's paper will reflect my perspectives as a scholar trained in the history of religions and as a practicing Buddhist. (I am not a Buddhalogist.) Both perspectives, I feel, have something to contribute to interreligious dialogue and to the cross-cultural comparative study of religion; neither one is as strong when it is used alone. The way in which these perspectives are interwoven will be clear in my comments. I will…
Comparative History of Religion
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION Get access Women and World Religions By Denise Lardner CarmodyAbingdon, 1979 168 pages $5.95 Rita M Gross Rita M Gross University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 2, June 1983, Pages 334-b–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LI.2.334-b Published: 01 June 1983
The Three-Yana Journey in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism
Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is a unique form of Buddhism. At this point, it is not as well or as accurately known to theologians or to the public as are some other forms of Buddhism, especially Theravadin, Zen, or Pure Land Buddhism. Because of the self-secret nature of the Vajrayana teachings and the oral transmission of most of those teachings, it can be a difficult form of Buddhism to study. Much of the popular literature on Tantra is unreliabl…
"Response to Gordon Kaufman "This Is It: Nothing Happens Next
When preparing for these meetings, before papers were received, I remember assuming that, of course, Christians would be talking about God. It was unpredictable what they might say about God, but that they would talk about God was taken for granted. It was less clear what Buddhists would say, and I awaited Buddhist papers with curiosity. It seemed that Christians expected us to talk about sunyat2 (emptiness), but I was not surprised that neither …
Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives
Encounter: Extraordinary Women - Women called by Spirits: Shamans and Savants - In the Wings: Rituals for Wives and Mothers - Out of the Shadows: Women in Male-Dominated Systems - Success Stories: Women and Men in Balance or Equality
"I Go for Refuge to the Sangha": A Response to Rosemary Ruether's Paper
liberation in which movements are engaged. Sometimes, indeed, this depth spiritual dimension is better captured by poets and song writers of nonreligious movements, than by those from a religious culture. So feminist spirituality draws on the poetry, art, and song of secular feminist and liberation movements for help in expressing its spirituality. Thus women-church is not an end in itself but part of a liberative process. This liberative process…
The Study of Religion as Religious Experience
Autobiography, Mutual Transformation, and the Prophetic Voice in Buddhist Feminism
This presentation comes with a warning-The author will engage in kind of autobiographical act typical of contemporary feminist theology. Feminist theologians and scholars are much more likely to be autobiographical in their professional writing than are their more conventional colleagues, a methodological stance that often confuses or alienates outsiders to feminist discourse. Feminists, however, have strong and cogent reasons for their autobiogr…
Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
Incommensurability: Between Traditions or between Psychological Styles
Religious incommensurability may be more of a problem within religious traditions than across religious The most intractable problem may be between religiously tolerant and religiously intolerant. The central problem of overcoming incommensurability may lie in getting people to value diversity and pluralism. Since I find nothing in John Cobb's eminently sensible comments on incommensurability that I wish to dispute, my brief commentary will take …
A Buddhist Response
and scholars have a great deal in common when it comes to discussing dialogue and scholarship. Both seem to agree that there is no nonnormative approach to the study of religion. Rather than attempting to defend our methodology, we must simply do our work well. In my response to these fine discussions of the respectability of interreligious dialogue, I will do things. First, I will comment briefly on each of the papers, and then I will add a few …
Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon A Report on Twenty-some Years of Feminist Reflection
This article argues that the familiar triadic model of the Hindu pantheon obscures the significance of goddesses in Hinduism by incorrectly locating the major division within the Hindu pantheon along gender lines. Instead, it will be argued that the familiar ‘moksha-dharma’ tension and synthesis be used to organise the deities into a pantheon, with both female and male deities patronising both moksha and dharma
Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions
Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Scholar-Practitioner
PASSION AND PERIL: TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES AS A FEMINIST SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER' RITA M. GROSS In the fall of 1992, the imminent publication of my Buddhism Afier Patriarchy brought to the fore a "double-bind" facing scholars like myself who transgress traditional boundaries. The text offers a recon- struction of Buddhist tradition and understanding which decenters androcentric privilege. This bold move would not be appreciated, I feared, by any of…
The dharma of gender
Mulheres budistas como líderes e professoras
No budismo, o papel do professor de dharma (religioso) é a função mais prestigiosa, e o professor de dharma tem mais autoridade do que qualquer outro líder. Apesar de os ensinamentos budistas não conterem nenhuma doutrina que limite essa função ao homem, na prática, em toda a história budista, foram pouquíssimas as mulheres que se tornaram conhecidas como professoras de dharma. Algumas pessoas acham que essas práticas não prejudicam as mulheres, …
Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Religious History: Response
Margaret R. Miles, Virginia Burrus, Tazim R. Kassam, Rita M. Gross, Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Religious History [with Response], Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 45-74
Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? A Feminist Assessment of Buddhism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Doctrinally, Buddhism is free of the myths and symbols that make some other religions so intractable to feminist reforms. In its philosophical views and its meditation practices, Buddhism has tremendous potential for deconstructing gender. In less than thirty years, we have gone from a situation in which almost nothing had been written about Buddhist women to a situation in which books and articles appear regularly. There is now a worldwide Buddh…
A Garland of Feminist ReflectionsForty Years of Religious Exploration: Forty Years of Religious Exploration
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 …
America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence: Some Comments
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