03491nam 22006373 450 991106964440332120241215090229.09781978826410197882641910.36019/9781978826410(MiAaPQ)EBC31772715(Au-PeEL)EBL31772715(CKB)36976050200041(DE-B1597)727868(DE-B1597)9781978826410(OCoLC)1479473932(EXLCZ)993697605020004120241215d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGrieving Pregnancy Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism1st ed.New Brunswick :Rutgers University Press,2024.©2025.1 online resource (190 pages)9781978826427 1978826427 9781978826380 1978826389 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Japanese Mizuko Rites and the Buddhist Imagination of Prenatal Beings -- 2 Catholic Theological Anthropologies of Prenatal Life -- 3 Japanese Buddhism, Ritual Efficacy, and Mizuko Kuyō -- 4 Reframing Pregnancy Loss through Ritual: American Catholics Making New Memorials -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the AuthorIn Grieving Pregnancy: Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism, Maureen L. Walsh compares how the two religious traditions respond ritually and discursively to miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion experiences marked by grief for the women involved. The experience of pregnancy loss has always been a part of women’s lives, yet only recently has it garnered attention from religious leaders and scholars commensurate with its prevalence. This book examines pregnancy loss as a theological problem for both Buddhism and Catholicism and analyzes the rites and memorials that have developed to address it, such as Japanese Buddhist mizuko kuyō (water children rites) and emergent American Catholic memorial practices focused on pregnancy loss. These parallel practices have emerged within distinct religious landscapes—a fact reflected in their forms and purposes—and when considered together, they raise questions of keen interest to theological and religious studies about the goals of religious practice and the imagination of human life at its earliest stages.AbortionReligious aspectsBuddhismDLCAbortionReligious aspectsCatholicismDLCAbortionReligious aspectsJapanDLCAbortionReligious aspectsUnited StatesDLCLoss (Psychology)Religious aspectsDLCRELIGION / GeneralbisacshAbortionReligious aspectsBuddhism.AbortionReligious aspectsCatholicism.AbortionReligious aspectsAbortionReligious aspectsLoss (Psychology)Religious aspects.RELIGION / General.294.337MS 6750rvkWalsh Maureen L1896827MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911069644403321Grieving Pregnancy4551746UNINA