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Testament
(Hardcover)
George L. Goodwin
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Freedom in Christ
(Hardcover)
Cindy Casalis, John S. Knox; Foreword by Kenneth G. Warren
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Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of
representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about
writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important
theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist
concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on
extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with
Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study
invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly
narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and
patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent
debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the
Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha,
samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's
provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed
empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female
renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as
''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher
ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female
renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a
struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept
of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of
equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance
about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced
readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist
nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for
anyone interested in the connections between religion and power,
subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.
While religion and queerness often are viewed as disparate,
scholars in both fields of study share concerns and questions about
how the modern subject, with its attachments to institutions and
communities, is formed. This special issue of GLQ brings together
queer studies and political theology in order to explore the
relationship between the self and politics, theism, and queerness.
Going beyond previous work in queer political theology that has
focused primarily on Christianity, contributors to this issue
consider how queer sexualities appear in other theological
contexts, including articles on astrological, Blackpentecostal,
Thirunangai, hijra, and sarimbavy ways of life, recentering
marginalized and underrepresented minorities, beliefs, and
practices. Contributors Ashon Crawley, Seth Palmer, Vaibhav Saria,
David K. Seitz, Liza Tom, Ricky Varghese, Alexa Winstanley-Smith,
Fan Wu
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Ethics and Advocacy
(Hardcover)
Harlan Beckley, Douglas F. Ottati, Matthew R. Petrusek
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