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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus
- The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos
- The great men of Jainism in utero: a survey
- A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences
- Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature
- Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus
- Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation
- Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism
- Embryology in Babylonia and the bible
- The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature
- Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives
- A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature
- The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story
- Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory
- Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin.