Sacred Inception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Inception write by Marianne Delaporte. This book was released on 2018-06-21. Sacred Inception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself.
The Tale of Cârvâka
The Tale of Cârvâka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tale of Cârvâka write by Manga Randreas. This book was released on 2005-04. The Tale of Cârvâka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ananda is a bright youngster with a keen and questioning mind who enjoys life. He and friend Sukarma grow together, but circumstances take them along different paths. Sukarma becomes an ascetic, foreasking worldly pleasures, while Ananda encounters frustrations and tragedies. When his father dies, he follows the rituals, but finds them to be of no avail. He rejects all traditional beliefs, proclaims his atheism and becomes a preacher of hedonism. In the end, Ananda and Sukarma are drawn to a confrontation and the opposing worldviews are brought into the open. This is the story of how Ananda became Cârvâka.
Imagery, Ritual, and Birth
Imagery, Ritual, and Birth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagery, Ritual, and Birth write by Anna M. Hennessey. This book was released on 2018-12-11. Imagery, Ritual, and Birth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. This book explores how imagery is used in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during the contemporary rituals of birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture.
Sacred Pregnancy
Sacred Pregnancy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Pregnancy write by Ann W. Duncan. This book was released on 2023-04-25. Sacred Pregnancy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacred Pregnancy is part a retrospective on changing paradigms of and feminist discourse on motherhood, part sociological study of changing religious demographics and understandings of religious experience in the United States, and part exploration of the spiritual movements and spiritually guided reproductive health services that bring all these themes together. Resting on the premise that motherhood in general and pregnancy specifically should not be brushed aside as beneath intellectual inquiry or as settled subjects, Ann Duncan explores a new form of religious community: a growing number of diverse movements that blend business with a spiritual approach to the reproductive health of women. This new mode of spiritual ritual is centered not around a particular conception of the divine but by the shared experience of pregnancy and birth as sacred rites of passage and women's reproductive health as an avenue toward spiritual experience, community, and even economic opportunity. These spiritual birth movements are an invitation to further investigate and understand not only the social construction of motherhood and the cultural understanding and practice of pregnancy, but also the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood and the concomitant desire for religious ritual in the lives of American women.
