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Mourning the unborn dead : a Buddhist ritual comes to America
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Mourning the unborn dead : a Buddhist ritual comes to America / Jeff Wilson.
ISBN
9780195371932
0195371933
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index.
Contents
Introduction: "Different meanings, different ends"
"Carried with Jizō Bosatsu" : mizuko kuyō in Japanese-American communities
"A shadow in the heart" : mizuko kuyō in convert American zen
"We need to free ourselves" : adaptations of convert mizuko kuyō
"Branching streams flow on in the dark" : rethinking American Buddhism in light of mizuko kuyō
"Without biblical revelation" : rhetorical appropriations of mizuko kuyō by Christians and other non-Buddhist Americans
"Thank you getupgrrl for giving me my mizuko" : therapeutic appropriations of mizuko kuyō by non-Buddhist Americans
Postscript: "Where is Buddhism?".
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