A Christian Exploration of Women's Bodies and Rebirth in Shin Buddhism

Kristin Johnston Largen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3655-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores challenging doctrines dealing with women’s bodies and rebirth in Shin Buddhism, and relates those teachings to similar concerns around women’s bodies in Christianity.

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism inherited many negative doctrines around women’s bodies, which in some early Buddhist texts were presented as an obstacle to rebirth, and a hindrance to awakening in general. Beginning with an examination of these doctrines, the book explores Shin teachings and texts, as well as the Japanese context in which they developed, with a focus on women and rebirth in Amida’s Pure Land. These doctrines are then compared to similar doctrines in Christianity and used to suggestion fruitful avenues of Christian theological reflection.

Kristin Johnston Largen is professor of systematic theology at United Lutheran Seminary and associate dean of religious & spiritual life/college chaplain at Gettysburg College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Women’s Bodies and Soteriology

Chapter One: Bodies in Early Indian Buddhism Contradictory Discourse on Human Bodies

Chapter Two: Women in Medieval Japanese Society

Chapter Three: Shin Buddhism: History, Development, and Key Texts

Chapter Four: Women’s Bodies in Shin Buddhist Texts

Chapter Five: Women and Shin Buddhism in the 21st Century Context

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 230 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4985-3655-7 / 1498536557
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3655-4 / 9781498536554
Zustand	Neuware