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Autore |
Hennessey Anna |
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Titolo |
Imagery, ritual, and birth : ontology between the sacred and the secular / / Anna M. Hennessey |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 195 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth customs - Religious aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Birth imagery and the creation of sacred meaning -- Birth and death in the arts and humanities -- Religious objects and the Sheela-na-gig -- The social ontology of birth -- The secularization of religious objects during birth -- Art as sacred symbol in birth as a rite of passage -- Nonreligion and the sacred in new images of birth -- New feminisms and the subject of birth -- Transforming the culture of birth through imagery. |
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