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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. What is Buddhism, and what is Buddhism in the Insight Meditation Community (IMC)?
• 2. Womanism and the Absence of Explicit Black Buddhist Lesbian-Black Christian Straight Interdependence in Foundational Womanist Theological Scholarship
• 3. The Spiritual Practices and Experiences of African-American Buddhist Lesbians in IMC
• 4. Self, No Self, and the Paradoxes of Self and No Self Preservation
• 5. African-American Women Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Writers on Self and No Self
• 6. Object Relations in East and West - Self, No Self, The Abhidhamma, and W. R. D. Fairbairn
• 7. Wholeness as Object Liberation - The Efficacy of Buddhist Lovingkindness Meditation
• 8. Conclusions and Counseling Recommendations.