Emergent Dharma
asian american buddhist feminists on practice, identity, and resistance
$43.66
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2025
Summary
Reclaiming Dharma: Asian American Women on Feminism, Spirituality, and Liberation
An essential critique of American Buddhism, this anthology features 11 Asian American women reclaiming a vibrant feminist Dharma against whitewashing, patriarchy, and model-minority stereotypes.
Mainstream American Buddhism is often portrayed through a narrow, problematic lens: a group of mostly white converts sits on cushions, eyes closed, blissed out, serenely meditating. This is Buddhism mad…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798889842330 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Sharon Suh, PhD |
| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Imprint: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Sharon Suh, PhD
Sharon A. Suh, Ph.D., is an intersectional feminist scholar and practitioner of Buddhism focusing on the intersections of religion, race, gender, trauma, and embodiment. She has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. She has published widely in these areas and has received several trauma-informed certifications in mindfulness, yoga, and somatic healing modalities that she uses to lead workshops for faculty, staff, students, and the public on healing race-based trauma through mindfulness at national conferences, universities, and religious organizations throughout the country. She is author of Being Buddhist in a Christian World- Gender & Community in a Korean American Temple (2004); Silver Screen Buddha- Buddhism in Asian and Western Film (2015); and Occupy This Body- A Buddhist Memoir (2019).
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