Mourning the unborn dead
Subtitle: a Buddhist ritual comes to America
By: by Jeff Wilson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195371932
Subjects: Fetal propitiatory rites -- Buddhism; Fetal propitiatory rites -- United States; Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japanese background of mizuko kuyo; title: Religion and abortion in America; title: Carried with Jizo Bosatsu: mizuko kuyo in Japanese-American communities; title: Mizuko kuyo opponents in America; title: Mizuko kuyo in Japanese-American Zen; title: Mizuko kuyo at Nichiren temples in America; title: Mizuko kuyo at Jodo shu temples in America; title: Mizuko kuyo at Tantric Japanese-American temples in America; title: Mizuko kuyo in a Japanese Buddhist new religious movement in America; title: Analysis of mizuko kuyo in Japanese-American Buddhism; title: Acculturation of mizuko kuyo at Japanese-American Buddhist temples; title: Shadow in the heart: mizuko kuyo in convert American Zen; title: Transmission and importation: bringing mizuko kuyo to America; title: Following the flows; title: Forces driving the spread of water baby ceremonies; title: Bodhisattva movements in convert Buddhism; title: The Jizo movement; title: Exportation: water baby ceremonies beyond America; title: We need to free ourselves: adaptations of convert mizuko kuyo; title: The process of the ceremony; title: From mizuko kuyo to water baby ceremony: changes in ritual practice; title: New orientations: from fear of spirits to healing the self; title: Swapping cultural luggage; title: Branching streams flow on in the dark: rethinking American Buddhism in the light of mizuko kuyo; title: Comparing American Buddhist post-pregnancy loss rituals; title: Re-assessing the place of ritual in American Zen; title: Places, things, bodies, feelings: other sightings of American Zen; title: Without Biblical revelation: rhetorical appropriations of mizuko kuyo by Christians and other non-Buddhist Americans; title: Channels of knowledge and appropriation; title: Pro-life rhetorical appropriations of mizuko kuyo; title: Pro-choice rhetorical appropriations of mizuko kuyo; title: Appropriations beyond the abortion debate; title: Naming an overlooked phenomenon: Buddhist appropriators; title: Liquid lives and American arguments; title: Thank you getupgrrl for giving me my mizuko: therapeutic appropriations of mizuko kuyo by non-Buddhist Americans; title: The Japanese approach is more sensitive: Japan as better off than America; title: Healing pregnancy losses through mizuko kuyo, online and off; title: Finding a voice; title: If a woman talks about mizuko kuyo and no one is around, does healing happen; title: Seeking a ritual.