Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology

• Main Author: Yetunde, Pamela Ayo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
• Subjects: Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Buddhism.; Black theology.; Psychology and religion.; Religion and sociology.; Religion and Gender.; Black Theology.; Religion and Psychology.; Sociology of Religion.
• Physical Description: X, 135 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319944548
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94454-8

This book establishes how Buddhism in the Insight Meditation tradition supports "remarkable relational resilience" for women who are of African descent and same-sex loving, yet living in a society that often invalidates women, African-Americans, LGBTQ people, and non-Christians. Pamela Ayo Yetunde explores the psycho-sexual experiences of African-American Buddhist lesbians, and shows that their abilities to be in healthy relationships are made possible through their Buddhist practices and communities, even in the face of invisibilizing forces related to racial, gender, sexuality, and religious discrimination and oppression.