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Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity - Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving (Hardcover, New)
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Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity - Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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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. Showing how old
and new forms of myth, symbol, doctrine, praxis, and organization
combine and overlap in contemporary mizuko kuyo, Smith provides
critical insight from many angles: the sociology of the family, the
power of the medical profession, the economics of temples, the
import of ancestral connections, the need for healing in both
private and communal ways and, perhaps above all, the place of
women in modern Japanese religion. At the heart of Smith's research
is the issue of how human beings experience the death of a life
that has been and remains precious to them. While universal, these
losses are also personal and unique. The role of society in helping
people to heal from these experiences varies widely and has changed
enormously in recent decades. In examples of grieving for these
kinds of losses one finds narratives not only of deep sorrow but of
remarkable dignity.
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