Religious Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation - Tapa blanda

"[Has] a liveliness and warmth that few works of this genre manage to achieve. I found it simultaneously informative, challenging, and moving."-Jose Ignacio Cabezon "Gross, a Buddhist and Ruether, a Christian have collaborated since 1985 on interfaith dialogues that are respectful, balanced and enlightening .Readers specifically seeking a heavy treatment of ecospirituality will yearn for more pages, but nonetheless the wisdom on this issue does not disappoint. The book is a good model of what so many women do well: carry their own candles and hold them high, dispelling darkness altogether." Publishers Weekly, March 26, 2001 "Readers interested in Buddhist-Christian dialogue will find here an exemplary instance of it. Readers interested in religious feminism will find clear explications of their lifetimes of work by two of the most important religious feminists. Readers interested in ecology . . . will find careful reflection by already significant contributors to environmental ethics. Rarely does a single volume offer such deeply personal introductions to two such important themes." Booklist "This book is an excellent introduction to interfaith dialogue by two feminist theologians both well known in their own fields." Theological Book Review Feed the Minds "Though Gross and Ruether compare the basic premises of their respective religions, they do not dilute the integrity of the exchange. Successful." Meg Federico, Shambala Sun, May 2002 "Not only is their subject matter well handled, but their process illustrates how well interfaith dialogue can and should be done." Marian Van Eyck McCain, Resurgence, January 2002 "This book would be a fascinating chronicle of modern interfaith dialogue if it merely stopped [at the biographical], but it is also a robust statement feminist philosophy and theology in a comparative mode. The authors actually respond to each other based on their experience in dialogue together, and this exchange gives their conversation an unusual richness and focus. The book leaves the reader with the profound sense that dialogue enriches every participant and is a necessary element in the ecological conversation that is so crucial to the survival of humankind and the planet and the renewal of religion." John Berthrong, Theological Studies, December 2001

In this work the authors write candidly about what their respective traditions mean to them in both their liberating as well as problematic aspects. Throughout the book their life stories provide the rich soil, perhaps even the rational, for their theological and spiritual development. Despite the marked differences in their life histories and their respective religious faiths, Rita Gross and Rosemary Radford Ruether achieve surprising unanimity on the paramount issue: what engaged Buddhism and what enlightened Christianity can offer in the struggle to create a new future for planet earth.