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Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life

Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities....

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Other Authors: Wojtkowiak, Joanna (Editor), Mathijssen, Brenda (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Subjects:
Religion & beliefs
priest
Ars moriendi
sharing death
death teacher
African birth ritual
ancestor worship
art
birth
birth altar
birthing justice
ceremony
child
childbirth
Chinese birth ritual
contemporary art
humanism
indigenous birth ritual
material culture
mother
nonreligion
nonreligious
pregnancy
religion
re-sacralization
rite of passage
ritual
sacred
secular
secularity
spirituality
symbol
traditional birth
grief
bereavement
death
pregnancy loss
embodiment
metaphor
rituals
cultural practices
Africa
memory making
function of ritualized acts
ritualization
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
new-born
bereaved parents
nurses
parent support group
existential
infrastructural breaks
sociology of repair
life-cycle rituals
funeral market
maternity care
tattoo
body-modification
identity
self-construction
Dimasa
death rituals
urban
ritual performance
personhood
motherhood
miscarriage
stillbirth
abortion
ritualizing
qualitative research
The Netherlands
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Summary:Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities. They represent a beginning and an end, and lead to ritualizing as well as embodied forms of spirituality. Throughout the book, the authors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on rituals at birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as religious studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. By doing so, they shed light on new forms of ritualizing, as well as on traditional rituals.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (158 p.)
ISBN:books978-3-0365-5416-7
9783036554150
9783036554167
Access:Open Access

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