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Summary:

"[This book] compares how the two religious traditions respond ritually and discursively to miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion experiences marked by grief for the women involved. The experience of pregnancy loss has always been a part of women's lives, yet only recently has it garnered attention from religious leaders and scholars commensurate with its prevalence. This book examines pregnancy loss as a theological problem for both Buddhism and Catholicism and analyzes the rites and memorials that have developed to address it, such as Japanese Buddhist mizuku kuyo (water children rights) and emergent American Catholic memorial practices focused on pregnancy loss. These parallel practices have emerged within distinct religious landscapes-a fact reflected in their forms and purposes-and when considered together, they raise questions of keen interest to theological and religious studies about the goals of religious practice and the imagination of human life at its earliest stages"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Japanese Mizuko rites and the buddhist imagination of prenatal beings
• Catholic theological anthropologies of prenatal life
• Japanese Buddhism, ritual efficacy, and Mizuko Kuyō
• Reframing pregnancy loss through ritual: American Catholics making new memorials.

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Maureen L. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Grieving pregnancy: memorializing loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism [by Walsh, M.L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Grieving pregnancy [by Walsh, M.L.] (New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2025] — ISBN 9781978826380; LCCN 2024016244)

Subjects:

Fetal death — Social aspects — Japan

Fetal death — Social aspects — United States

Fetal death — Religious aspects — Buddhism

Fetal death — Religious aspects — Catholic Church

Fetal death — Japan — Religious aspects

Fetal death — United States — Religious aspects

Fetal death — Cross-cultural studies

Buddhism — Japan — Customs and practices

Catholic Church — Customs and practices

Loss (Psychology) — Social aspects

Loss (Psychology) — Religious aspects

Mourning customs — Social aspects

Mourning customs — Religious aspects

Rites and ceremonies

Abortion — Japan — Religious aspects

Abortion — United States — Religious aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

RG648 .W35 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781978826410 (electronic bk.)
1978826419 (electronic bk.)
9781978826380 [Invalid]
1978826389 [Invalid]
9781978826427 [Invalid]
1978826427 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1481497936

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31772715 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21227060