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Free Thinking: Early Buddhism, Sheila Rowbotham

Early Buddhism, Sheila Rowbotham

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Two Buddhism scholars and British socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham join Rana Mitter.

Kate Crosby and Sarah Shaw share their research into Buddhism with Rana Mitter, who is also joined by socialist feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham.

Helping start the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain is just one of the key moments in Sheila Rowbotham's life. This year she published Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s and she compares then and now talking to Rana Mitter. Also a discussion of early Buddhism and new research uncovered by Sarah Shaw and Kate Crosby. 
 
The Art of Listening: A Guide to the Early Teachings of Buddhism by Sarah Shaw is out now

Esoteric Theravada is a book Kate Crosby exploring the Southeast Asian meditation tradition

Sheila Rowbotham's Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s is out now.  Her other books include Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love and Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

Producer: Luke Mulhall

On the Free Thinking programme website you can find a playlist exploring religious belief featuring a range of interviewees including Giles Fraser, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Yaa Gyasi, Shelina Janmohamed and Haemin Sunim.   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp

Main image: Sheila Rowbotham 
Image credit James Swinson  j.swinson@csm.art.ac.uk

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