Maureen L Walsh

Grieving Pregnancy

Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial practices confront the same basic problem—that is, pregnancy loss—they conceive of the problem in different terms, and as a result, propose distinct responses to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826380
• ISBN-10: 1978826389
• Artikelnr.: 70165969

Autorenporträt

MAUREEN L. WALSH is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface                                               
                                                                                   
1
Introduction                                                                                                            
2 Japanese Mizuko Rites and the Buddhist Imagination of Prenatal
Beings             
3 Catholic Theological Anthropologies of Prenatal
Life                              
4 Japanese Buddhism, Ritual Efficacy, and Mizuko Kuy¿
                                        
5 Re-framing Pregnancy Loss Through Ritual: American Catholics Making New
Memorials       
6
Conclusion                                                                                                  
Acknowledgments     
Notes                                                                                      
Bibliography                                                                                                              
Index