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Title Sacred rights : the case for contraception and abortion in world religions / edited by Daniel C. Maguire
Published Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 295 pages)
Contents Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. "Each One an Entire World": A Jewish Perspective on Family Planning; 2. Contraception and Abortion in Roman Catholicism; 3. Contraception and Abortion Within Protestant Christianity; 4. Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Islam: Undertaking Khilafah; 5. The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion: The Hindu View; 6. The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Thai Buddhism; 7. Family Planning and Abortion: Cultural Norms Versus Actual Practices in Nigeria
8. Reproductive Rites and Wrongs: Lessons from American Indian Religious Traditions, Historical Experience, and Contemporary Life9. Heavenly Way and Humanly Doings: A Consideration of Chinese Man's Body Management During the Late Imperial Period; 10. Excess, Lack, and Harmony: Some Confucian and Taoist Approaches to Family Planning and Population Management--Tradition and the Modern Challenge; 11. Religion, State, and Population Growth; 12. Reproduction and Sexua
Summary As the global population continues to grow, family planning is fast becoming one of the most critical issues facing the planet. While many organizations--most prominently the United Nations--are trying to implement policies that will help curb the population explosion, these measures are frequently blocked by those professing conservative religious beliefs. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Birth control -- Religious aspects.
Contraception -- Religious aspects.
Abortion -- Religious aspects.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Religion and Medicine
Abortion, Induced -- ethics
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Abortion -- Religious aspects
Birth control -- Religious aspects
Contraception -- Religious aspects
Geburtenregelung
Religion
Aufsatzsammlung
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Bevolkingsgroei.
Anticonceptiva.
Abortus provocatus.
Religieuze aspecten.
Anticoncepção (aspectos religiosos)
Aborto (aspectos religiosos)
Planejamento familiar (serviços)
Form Electronic book
Author Maguire, Daniel C
LC no. 2002008363
ISBN 9780195347814
0195347811
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9780199849611
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9786610704088
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