ISBN:
9781498546706
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
392.12
Keywords:
Birth customs-Religious aspects
;
Childbirth-Religious aspects
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary book examines the shifting meaning of spirituality and birth practices in the modern world in the context of biomedical advances as well as colonial incursions. It indicates that spirituality in the birth place has managed to reemerge in many parts of the world.
Abstract:
Cover -- Sacred Inception -- Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World -- copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Midwives as a Bridge between the Spirit and the World -- Chapter 1 -- Midwifery as Religious Calling -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Childbirth and Folk Orthodoxy in Russia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 'Folk Orthodoxy' -- Obstetrics and Childbirth or the Midwife's Text -- Mother's text -- Child's text -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Superstition, Folk Religion, and Childbirth -- Exclusion of Informal Midwives in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Law of 1928 -- The Need for Oral History: The "Invisibility" of Informal Midwives -- "Destined by God": Becoming a Midwife and Motherhood -- "I Deliver Babies with Many Prayers": Intersection of Medical and Spiritual Roles -- Midwife as a Mother: Respect and Reputation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Stories of Birth -- Childbirth Manuals for Mothers and Others -- Spiritual Midwifery: Enter the Counterculture -- Pain to Pleasure: "An Interesting Sensation" -- Papas, Prophets, and Priests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contested Maternities: Colonization and a Return to Ancestors and Culture -- Chapter 5 -- Birthing the Spirit -- Conceptualizing "Spirit" within Ecological Worldviews -- Born by Ground: Birth on Country in Australia -- Birth on Earth: Community, Instinct, and Intuition -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 -- A Blur between the Spiritual and the Physical -- Understanding Spirituality in Traditional Igbo Medicine -- Birth in the Traditional Igbo Society Prior to the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Childbirth and Changing Landscapes since the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7.
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