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1. After Patriarchy- Feminist Transformation of the World Religion/
Paula M. Cooey,William R. Eakrin & John B. McDaniel , **
ISBN: 81-7030-508-X, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.202
Contents:
Introduction- Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin, Jay B. McDaniel; 1.
Black Women's surrogacy experience and the Christian notions of
redemption- Delores S. Williams; 2. Kali The Savior- Lina Gupta; 3.
Muslim Women and post- patriarchal Islam- Riffat Hassan; 4. Buddhism
after Patriarchy- Rita M. Gross; 5. Transforming the Nature of
Community- Towards a Feminist People of Israel- Judith Plaskow; 6. The
Redemption of the body- Post- Patriarchal reconstruction of inherited
Christian Doctrine- Paula M. Cooey; 7. Images of the Feminine in
Apache Religious Tradition- Ines Talamantez; 8. The Spiritual,
Political journey of a Feminist Freethinker- Emily Culpepper;
Contributors.
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2. Buddhism after Patriarchy- A Feminist History, Analysis and
Reconstruction of Buddhism/ Rita M. Gross, **
ISBN: 81-7030-422-9, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 148
About the Author
Rita M. Gross is Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. A former president of the
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, she is the editor of Beyond
Androcentrism; New Essays on Women and Religion, and with Nancy Falk,
of Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives. She is also the author of
numerous articles and essays on women and religion.
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3. Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender/ Jose Ignacio Cabezon, **
ISBN: 81-7030-342-7, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 113
About the Book
This book explores historical, textual, and social questions relating
to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist
world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses
on four key areas: Buddhist history, contemporary culture, Buddhist
symbols, and homosexuality, and it covers Buddhism's entire history,
from its origins to the present day. The result of original and
innovative research, the author offers new perspectives on the history
of the attitudes toward, and of the self-perception of women in both
ancient and modern Buddhist societies. He explores key social issues
such as abortion, he examines the use of rhetoric and symbols in
Buddhist texts, and cultures, and he discusses the neglected subject
to Buddhism and homosexuality.
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4. Buddhist Women Across Culture- Realization/ Ed. Karma Leshke Tsome,
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ISBN: 81-7030-660-4, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 203
About the Author
Karma Lekshe Tsomo (ed.) is Instructor of Buddhism at Chaminade
Universisty and Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. She has written
several books including Sutras in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist
Manastic Ethics for Women, also published by Suny Press, and most
recently, Living and Dying in Buddhist Culture (with David W.
Chappell).
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5. Devi Gita : The Song of the Goddess : A Translation, Annotation and
Commentary/ C. Mackenzi Brown, **
ISBN: 81-7030-634-5, Series: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 249
About the Book
This book provides a translation, with introduction, Commentary, and
annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of
the Goddess). It is an important but not well-known text from the rich
Sakta (Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed around
the fifteenth century C.E., in partial initiation of the famous
Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord), composed some fifteen centuries
earlier. Around the sixth century C.E., following the rises of several
male deities to prominence, a new theistic movement began in which the
supreme being was envisioned as female, known as the Great Goddess
(Maha-Devi). Appearing first as a violent and blood-loving deity, this
Goddess gradually evolved into a more benign figure, a compassionate
World-Mother and bestower of salvific wisdom. It is in this beneficent
mode that the Goddess appears in the Devi Gita. This work makes
available an up-to-date translation of the Devi Gita, along with a
historical and theological analysis of the text. The book is divided
into sections of verses, and each section is followed by a comment
explaining key terms, concepts, ritual procedures, and mythic themes.
The comments also offer comparisons with related schools of thought,
indicate parallel texts and textual sources of verses in the Devi
Gita, and briefly elucidate the historical and religious background,
supplementing the remarks of the introduction.
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6. Feminine Multiplicity- A Study of Groups Multiple Goddesses in
India/ Yoshinori Onishi, US$ 16
ISBN: 81-7030-513-6, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.207
About the Book
The aim of this study is to examine into the meanings and significance
of the multiplicity of the feminine in Indian subcontinent as
exemplified by the 'Saptamatrkas', The 'nine Durgas the 'letters of
the Sanskrit alphabet (matrkas, "little mothers" and so on. The author
refer to female deities that seem to function almost always as a
group. It is as a group that these deities are considered significant
and expounded in the texts.
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7. Lives of the Nuns- Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the
Fourth to Sixth Centuries/ Trans. Kathryn Ann Tsai, **
ISBN: 81-7030-465-2, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 162
About the Book
A millennium and a half ago some remarkable women cast aside the
concerns of the world to devote their lives to Buddhism. Lives of the
Nuns, a translation of the Pi-ch'iu-ni chuan, was compiled by Shih Pao-
ch'and in or about A.D. 516 and covers exactly that period when
Buddhist monasticism for women was first being established in china.
Originally written to demonstrate the efficacy of Buddhist scripture
in the lives of female monastic, the sixty-five biographies are now
regarded as the best source of information about women's participation
in Buddhist monastic practice in premodern Chine. Among the stories of
the Buddhist life well lived are entertaining tales that reveal the
wit and intelligence of these women in the face of unsavory officials,
highway robbers, even fawning barbarians. When Ching-ch'eng and a
fellow nun, renowned for their piety and strict asceticism, are taken
to "the capital of the northern barbarians" and piled with delicacies,
the women "besmirch their own reputation" by gobbling down the food
shamelessly. Appalled by their lack of manners, the disillusioned
barbarians release the nuns, who return happily to their convent.
Lives of the Nuns gives readers a glimpse into a world long vanished
yet peopled with women and men who express the same aspirations and
longing for spiritual enlightenment found at all times and in all
places. Buddhologists, sinologists, historians, and those interested
in religious studies and women's studies will welcome this volume,
which includes annotations for readers new to the field of Chinese
Buddhist history as well as for the specialist.
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8. Other Revolution: NGO and Feminist Perspectives from South Asia/
Ed. Renuka Sharma, Purushotam Bilimoria, US$ 33
ISBN: 81-7030-629-9
About the Book
Reflections on presentations, reports and debates from the Beijing
Women's Conference in 1995 and Interdisciplinary Women's Conference in
Australia in 1996; contributed articles.
Contents: Editorial Introduction, Section I: Historical Issues in the
Construction of Gender and Identity, Section II. Gender, Development
Ethics and the Environment, Section III. Current Concerns, Reviews and
Reports.
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9. Religion and Women/ Arvind Sharma, **
ISBN: 81-7030-564-0, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 235
About the Author
Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the
Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Formerly of the I.A.S., he also holds an M.A. in Economics from
Syracuse University, a Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard
Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from
Harvard University. He is currently engaged in promoting the adoption
of A Universal Declaration of Human Right by the World's Religions.
His many books include Classical Hindu Thought (OUP, 2000), Hinduism
for our Times (OUP, 1995), The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist
Perspective (OUP, 1995)
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10. Representations of Gender, Democracy and Identity Politics in
Relation to South Asia/ Ed. Renuka Sharma, US$ 36
ISBN: 81-7030-503-9, Series: Narri Series on Women Studies No. 2
About the Book
The essays collected here represent a variety of contemporary writings
about gender, culture and society in South Asia, pertinent in the
present context of a growing sectarian fundamentalism. The writers are
all participants in debates about feminist epistemology ; the growing
grassroots democratic movements; the challenges and pitfalls of
globalization women's intellectual property rights as well as the
articulation of alternative strategies for current legal and social
problems. The works included in this volume allow for a number of
different themes, viewpoints, methodologies to emerge. The book is
divided into five sections namely -Theory , Praxis and History ;
Thematic issues with relation to Religion, Law, Secularism, and the
Placement of women in Trade Unions and. in Organisations Regional
Representations; Self Representations and Identity Politics
Postscript. The Contributors to the volume are Flavia Agnes, Sara
Ahmed, Barbara Watson Andaya, Videsha Bagchi, -Aparna Basu, Gillian
Castellino, Shivani Banerjee Chakravorty, Vinitha Jayasinghe,
Bernadette Joseph, Nalini Kasynathan, Ratna Kapur, Lashvinder Kaur,
Madhu Kishwar, HeleDc Lay, Gitiara Nasreen, Indira J. Parikh, Santi
Rozario, Seemanthini Niranjana, Tanika Sarkar, Nayanil. Shah, Renuka
Sharma, Olga Valladares, Fareeha Zafar .
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11. Rise of the Goddesses in the Hindu Tradition/ Tracy Pintchman, **
ISBN: 81-7030-521-7, Series: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No.210
About the Book
This book explores the rise of the Great Goddessby focusing on the
development of sakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and
prakrti (materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period,
clarifying how these principles became central to her theology.
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12. Sakyadhita : Daughters of the Buddha/ Ed. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, **
ISBN: 81-7030-592-6, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.192
About the Book
Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha is the result of the first
International Conference of Buddhist nuns. At this gathering women
Buddhist renunciates from east and west talked candidly about their
lives -- their joys, their problems and their future as Buddhist nuns
in the modern world. This book aims at linking and encouraging women
on the spiritual path through the ideas and experience of Buddhist
women practitioners from various countries and traditions. It
investigates how women can avoid personal exploitation and maximize
their potentialities for enlightenment, as well as how to effectively
help institute full bhiksuni ordination worldwide and contribute to
redressing the gender imbalance as a major step toward planetary well-
being.
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13. Sisters in Solitude- Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics
for Women- A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the
Tibetan Mulasarvastivada Bhiksuni Pratimoksa Sutras/ Karma Leshke
Tsomo, **
ISBN: 81-7030-541-1, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.181
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14. Today's Women in World Religions/ Ed. Arvind Sharma, Introduction
by Katherine K.Young, **
ISBN: 81-7030-566-7, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 237
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15. Unknown Pilgrims: History, Life and Spirituality of the Jaina
Women Ascetics/ N. Shanta, US$ 50
ISBN: 81-7030-535-7, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.219
About the Book
This book permits us to penetrate within one of the most ancient
ascetic spirituality, that followed by some 6000 Jaina women ascetics.
Written with their collaboration, it presents to the reader their life
of radical renunciation of which one of the hallmarks is incessant
pilgrimage, a regular shifting from one place to the next in a
sustained striving towards self-purification, a striving of which the
final goal is Nirvana. Here then we have before us the whole Jaina
tradition, presented through scriptures, ancient texts, biographies,
epigraphy and iconography. Here too we may observe its outworking in
contemporary daily life and its contribution to inter-cultural and
inter-monastic encounter. Furthermore, it is not without interest that
this study finds its own proper place in an age which is rediscovering
feminine values. At a time when so many people are taking a deep
interest in Asian spiritualities we find here an original and strictly
defined spiritual path and also a spiritual teaching whose strength
and subtlety merit our attention and invites us to embark on an
authentic spiritual journey.
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16. Women in India/ Mary Francis Billington, US$ 26
ISBN: 81-7030-92-4
About the Book
India in many respects has been written upon exahaustively yet on the
other hand, it is so vast an area; its problems are of such supreme
imperial moment, and it population presents such wide racial
variations, that it seems well nigh impossible for the final word to
be said concerning its. Of its women especially, their inner life and
thought, only the most superficial knowledge exist. The present book
is a study of women in India. The book is divided into 14 chapters.
The chapters are - Her birth and infancy, her education, her marriage,
medical aid and assistance for the sick, widow- remarriage, and
divorse, female life in field and factory, dress, embroidery and
needlecraft, jewellery and ornament, amusements and plesure, female
crimes and criminals, death and funeral customes, Anglo India society
and notes on travelling and outfit. This book is a pioneer book in the
woman studies in general and Indian women in particular.
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17. Women in World Religion/ Arvind Sharma, US$ 22
ISBN: 81-7030-428-8 , Series: Narri Series on Women Studies No. 1
About the Author
Arvind Sharma (ed.)
Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the
Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Formerly of the I.A.S., he also holds an M.A. in Economics from
Syracuse University, a Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard
Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from
Harvard University. He is currently engaged in promoting the adoption
of A Universal Declaration of Human Right by the World's Religions.
His many books include Classical Hindu Thought (OUP, 2000), Hinduism
for our Times (OUP, 1995), The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist
Perspective (OUP, 1995).
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