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Author Smith, Bardwell L., 1925-2022

Title Narratives of sorrow and dignity : Japanese women, pregnancy loss, and modern rituals of grieving / Bardwell L. Smith
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford ritual studies
Oxford ritual studies.
Contents Part 1: Approaching the Worlds of Mizuko. Mizuko Kuyo: Memorial Services for Child Loss in Japan ; Architectural, Iconographic, Doctrinal Features of Mizuko Kuyo ; Situating the Rites of Mourning: Two Temples and a Variety of Visitors ; The Phenomena of Mizuko Kuyo: Responses to Pregnancy Loss. -- Part 2: Deciphering the Worlds of Pregnancy Loss: Women, Men, and the Unborn. Japanese Woman as Housewife, Mother, and Worker: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1868-2010) ; Ancestors, Angry Spirits, and the Unborn: Caring for the Dead on the Path to Ancestorhood ; Mothers, Society, and Pregnancy Loss: Rethinking the Meaning of Nurture. -- Part 3: Relating Mizuko Rei to the Larger Worlds of Profound Loss ; The Revival of Death, the Rebirth of Grieving, and Ways of Mourning ; Rituals of Affliction; An Invitation to Sobriety. -- Appendices. Adashino Nenbutsuji, English language text of Mizuko kuyo service ; Yvonne Rand, Jizo: Protector of Travelers into and out of Life ; Sai-no-kawara text, tr. of Manabe Kosai. Jizo-bosatsu no kenkyu [Research on Jizo Bodhisattva]. Kyoto: Sanmitsudo shoten, 1960 ; Yasuo Sakakibara, Economic Development and Temple Economics in Japan
Summary Here, Bardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on mizuko kuyo, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fetal propitiatory rites -- Buddhism.
Fetal propitiatory rites -- Japan
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Buddhist women -- Religious life -- Japan
Bereavement.
Fetal death.
Buddhism.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Bereavement
Abortion, Spontaneous -- psychology
Fetal Death
Buddhism
Ceremonial Behavior
Funeral Rites
mourning.
Buddhism.
funerals.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Rituals & Practice.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Fetal death
Buddhism
Bereavement
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Buddhist women -- Religious life
Fetal propitiatory rites
Fetal propitiatory rites -- Buddhism
SUBJECT Japan https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007564
Subject Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199942145
0199942145
9780199345915
0199345910