Rita M. Gross 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 essays in "A Garland of Feminist Reflections[...]
This text provides an illustration of cross-cultural patterns in women's religious lives. It provides everything from vivid portraits of individual women to analyses of complete systems.[...]
Surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future.[...]
Surveys feminist studies of the history of Judaism and Christianity and discusses the changes feminism has wrought in the study of women's religious lives and in religious ritual and leadership[...]