Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving

Name: Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving
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ISBN: 9780199942152

ISBN-10: 0199942153

ISBN-13: 9780199942152

Edition: 2013

Authors: Bardwell L. Smith

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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…

Book details

List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.33" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface



Approaching the Worlds of Mizuko



Mizuko Kuyo: Memorial Services for Child Loss in Japan



Architectural, Iconographic, and Doctrinal Features of Mizuko Kuyo



Situating the Rites of Mourning: Two Temples and a Variety of Visitors



The Phenomena of Mizuko Kuyo: Responses to Pregnancy Loss



Deciphering the Worlds of Pregnancy Loss: Women, Men, and the Unborn



Japanese Woman as Housewife, Mother, and Worker: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1868-2010)



Ancestors, Angry Spirits, and the Unborn: Caring for the Dead on the Path to Ancestorhood



Mothers, Society, and Pregnancy Loss: Rethinking the Meaning of Nurture



Relating Mizuko Rei to the Larger Worlds of Profound Loss



The Revival of Death, the Rebirth of Grieving, and Ways of Mourning



Rituals of Affliction: An Invitation to Sobriety


Acknowledgments


Appendices



Commentary on the Mizuko Kuyo Service, at Adashino Nenbutsuji, Kyoto



Jizo: Protector of Travelers into and out of Life



The Tale of Sai-no-kawara



Economic Development and Temple Economics in Japan


Notes


Note on Transliteration


Glossary of Terms


Bibliography


Index