Grieving Pregnancy

Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism

Maureen L. Walsh (Autor)

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190 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2642-7 (ISBN)

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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.

In Grieving Pregnancy: Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism, Maureen L. Walsh 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 mizuko kuyō (water children rites) 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.

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

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 Kuyō
5 Re-framing Pregnancy Loss through Ritual: American Catholics Making New Memorials
6 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.12.2024
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Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-9788-2642-7 / 1978826427
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2642-7 / 9781978826427
Zustand	Neuware