Sacred rights : the case for contraception and abortion in world religions / / edited by Daniel C. Maguire

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965483403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [UK] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0195347811; 9780195347814
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 295 p
• Altri autori (Persone): MaguireDaniel C
• Disciplina: 291.5/66
• Soggetti: Birth control - Religious aspects; Contraception - Religious aspects; Abortion - Religious aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. "Each One an Entire World": A Jewish Perspective on Family Planning -- 2. Contraception and Abortion in Roman Catholicism -- 3. Contraception and Abortion Within Protestant Christianity -- 4. Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Islam: Undertaking Khilafah -- 5. The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion: The Hindu View -- 6. The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Thai Buddhism -- 7. Family Planning and Abortion: Cultural Norms Versus Actual Practices in Nigeria -- 8. Reproductive Rites and Wrongs: Lessons from American Indian Religious Traditions, Historical Experience, and Contemporary Life -- 9. Heavenly Way and Humanly Doings: A Consideration of Chinese Man's Body Management During the Late Imperial Period -- 10. Excess, Lack, and Harmony: Some Confucian and Taoist Approaches to Family Planning and Population Management-Tradition and the Modern Challenge -- 11. Religion, State, and Population Growth -- 12. Reproduction and Sexuality in a Changing World: Reaching Consensus -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Editor's Note on Japanese Buddhism -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the paramaters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and nuanced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. This theme is carried out in essays on each of the world's major religious traditions, written by scholar practitioners of those faiths.

Culture’s Futures : Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture / / by Eric Aronoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910983355603321
• Autore: Aronoff Eric
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
• ISBN: 9783031804304; 3031804309
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages)
• Collana: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
• Disciplina: 813.0876209
• Soggetti: Literary form; Anthropology; Ethnology; Literary Genre; Ethnography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture -- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture -- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home -- Chapter 4: Captivity, Conversion, Culture: Octavia E. Butler’s Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy -- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture: Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms -- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture’s Futures.
• Sommario/riassunto: “Culture’s Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture is a brilliant work of interdisciplinary scholarship. Aronoff addresses a gap in scholarship on science fiction and anthropology by illustrating the complex ways in which both develop their poetics in relation to one another. The book promises to become the standard reference for future scholars exploring the development of social science fiction after 1945.” —Leif Sorensen, Colorado State University, United States This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over “culture” and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms and post-modern/postcolonial reinventions, are intertwined technologies for constructing “culture” and difference through narrative worldbuilding. This book traces the ways SF authors – including Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Octavia E. Butler, as well as Indigenous futurists Craig Strete, Celu Amberstone, Rebecca Roanhorse and Cherie Dimaline – have deployed, interrogated and revised these models of “culture,” representation and power to imagine new futures. Eric Aronoff is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Residential College of Arts and Humanitiesat Michigan State University, USA. His areas of expertise are modernist American literature and criticism, anthropology and literature, and theories of culture, as well as science fiction. Eric also has strong research interests in literature and the environment. His work has appeared in journals such as MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Eric’s first book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture was published in 2013.