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Mourning the unborn dead a Buddhist ritual comes to America
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Title
Mourning the unborn dead [electronic resource] : a Buddhist ritual comes to America / Jeff Wilson.
ISBN
9780199870967 (ebook) :
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 260 p.) : ill.
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Summary
Wilson discusses how Asian immigrants, convert Buddhists pro-life and pro-choice activists, and ordinary women have imported Japanese rituals to deal with one of the most divisive public issues in American society: abortion. He analyses the implications of these varied appropriations for the Americanisation of Buddhism.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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