Imagining the fetus : the unborn in myth, religion, and culture /

This volume presents essays that explore the depiction of the fetus in the world's major religious traditions, finding some striking commonalities as well as intriguing differences.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: American Academy of Religion
Otros Autores: Sasson, Vanessa R., Law, Jane Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series.
Temas:
Philosophische Anthropologie > Werk
Fetus > Religious aspects.
Theological anthropology.
Fetus.
Mythology.
Religion.
Manners and customs.
Fetus
Mythology
Religion
Cultural Characteristics
Fœtus > Aspect religieux.
Anthropologie théologique.
Fœtus.
Mythologie.
Mœurs et coutumes.
mythology (literary genre)
religion (discipline)
customs (social concepts)
RELIGION > Faith.
Manners and customs
Fetus > Religious aspects
Theological anthropology
Buddhismus
Christentum
Judentum
Theologische Anthropologie
Ungeborenes
Philosophische Anthropologie
Embryo > Mythen.
Mythen > Embryo.
Fetus > Religion.
Religion > Fetus.
Embryo > Religion.
Religion > Embryo.
Fetus > Mythen.
Mythen > Fetus.
Ungeborenes Kind.
Kultur.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus / Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law
  • The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos / André Couture
  • The great men of Jainism in utero : a survey / Eva De Clercq
  • A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences / Vanessa R. Sasson
  • Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature / Robert Kritzer
  • Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus / Justin Thomas McDaniel
  • Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation / Frances Garrett
  • Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
  • Embryology in Babylonia and the Bible / Marten Stol
  • The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature / Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
  • Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives / Gwynn Kessler
  • A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature / Daniel C. Peterson
  • The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story / Carolyn E. Tate
  • Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory / Jane Marie Law
  • Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin / Sallie Han.

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