Rita M. Gross Livres

Seventeen essays describe the various roles women play in religions of the past and present in such places as Africa, India, Korea, Greece, Iran, Japan, China, and even the Iroquois in America

A first of its kind, all-in-one guide to creating short-form TV series for the Internet. Written in a hip and entertaining style in the language of the cyber generation, this book guides the aspiring videomaker from an initial series idea through writing, production, and uploading and marketing a polished pilot and successive episodes of his or her own original Internet TV series.

Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself.

Exploring the tension between established beliefs and emerging knowledge, this book delves into the historical context of humanity's understanding of the earth and the cosmos. It highlights the struggle to abandon long-held views, such as the flat earth theory and the daily rising and setting of the sun, in light of new scientific discoveries. The narrative emphasizes the interplay of religion and common sense in shaping perceptions of reality, illustrating how challenging it can be to adapt to evolving truths.

A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender. At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls “the prison of gender roles”? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the prison of gender roles remain so inescapable? Gross uses the lenses of Buddhist philosophy to deconstruct the powerful concept of gender and its impact on our lives. In revealing the inadequacies involved in clinging to gender identity, she illuminates the suffering that results from clinging to any kind of identity at all.