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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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Subjects:	Religion & beliefs abortion Africa African birth ritual ancestor worship Ars moriendi art bereaved parents bereavement birth birth altar birthing justice body-modification ceremony child childbirth Chinese birth ritual contemporary art cultural practices death death rituals death teacher Dimasa embodiment existential function of ritualized acts funeral market grief humanism identity indigenous birth ritual infrastructural breaks life-cycle rituals material culture maternity care memory making metaphor miscarriage mother motherhood n/a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) new-born nonreligion nonreligious nurses parent support group personhood pregnancy pregnancy loss priest qualitative research re-sacralization religion rite of passage ritual ritual performance ritualization ritualizing rituals sacred secular secularity self-construction sharing death sociology of repair spirituality stillbirth symbol tattoo The Netherlands traditional birth urban
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Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life

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