Liquid Life (eBook)

Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

William R. LaFleur (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4367-1 (ISBN)

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Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? Equally puzzling to many Westerners is the Japanese practice of mizuko rites, in which the parents of aborted fetuses pray for the well-being of these rejected "e;lives."e; In this provocative investigation, William LaFleur examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. At the same time he contributes to the Western debate on abortion, exploring how the Japanese resolve their conflicting emotions privately and avoid the pro-life/pro-choice politics that sharply divide Americans on the issue.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b&w photos 3 graphs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abandonment • Abortion • Abortion in Japan • Abortion Law • After Babel • americans • Aristotle • Baby Boom • Bhikkhu • Birth Control • Bodhisattva • bricolage, moral • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Buddhism in Japan • buddhist texts • Calculation • celibacy • Cemetery • Censure • Christian • Christianity • Clergy • Commercialization • Confucianism • Contraception • dazai osamu • deity • Doll • Dreams • Early Buddhism • Edo Period • Endo Shusaku • Epidemics • Exorcism • Family planning • famine • fertility • Fire Sermon • Folk Art • folk religion • Gautama Buddha • Georges Bataille • Gordon, Mary • Guanyin • Guilt • Hase-dera (Kamakura) • Hayami Akira • Household • Ideology • Ihara Saikaku • Indication (medicine) • Individualism • indulgence • infanticide • Infant Mortality • I Wish (manhwa) • Jews • Johnson, Chalmers • Kami • Kannon • Kokeshi • Kokugaku • Kuroda Hideo • laborer • Legalization • Leveling (philosophy) • Liberal-Democratic party • Life • Limbo • Literature • mabiki • marriage • Memorial service (Orthodox) • Metaphor • Middle Ages • midwife • Mircea Eliade • Miscarriage • mizuko • Morality • muromachi period • Nakai Chikuzan • Natalism • Neo-Confucianism • neo-Shinto • Nichiren • Ogyū Sorai • Phallicism • Phallus • Philosopher • piety • Pinwheel (toy) • Polemic • Population • Prayer • Proscription • Protestantism • Purple Cloud Temple • Quantity • Rationality • Religion • Religion in Japan • Religious Organization • religious values • reproductivity • resentment • Richard Rorty • Rite • Ryōkan • Sai-no-kawara • scrutiny • Seminar • seriousness • Shinto • shinto shrine • sibling • social issue • Subjectivity • Suffering • Suggestion • Suzuki Shigetani • Tao Te Ching • Televangelists • The Buddhist (TV channel) • Their Child • Theology • The Other Hand • The Various • Tsurezuregusa • Ueno • umarekawari • Umbrella • Unintended Pregnancy • uterus • war casualities • Wealth • World War II • Writing • Yanagida Kunio • Yasukuni
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4367-7 / 1400843677
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4367-1 / 9781400843671