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Liquid Life

Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

William R. LaFleur

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie

Beschreibung

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 "lives." 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.

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Unintended pregnancy, After Babel, Bhikkhu, Family planning, Gautama Buddha, Shinto shrine, Abortion in Japan, Hase-dera (Kamakura), Infanticide, The Buddhist (TV channel), Suggestion, Rite, Miscarriage, Neo-Confucianism, Purple Cloud Temple, Doll, Pinwheel (toy), Literature, Abortion, Uterus, Abortion law, Kokeshi, Ueno, Polemic, Proscription, Shinto, Jews, Umbrella, Wealth, Confucianism, Phallus, Birth control, Religion in Japan, Americans, Buddhism, Buddhist texts, Folk art, Kokugaku, Seminar, Household, Legalization, Suffering, Famine, Philosopher, Piety, Buddhism in Japan, Fertility, Leveling (philosophy), Ideology, Cemetery, Christianity, Morality, Bodhisattva, Deity, The Other Hand, Sibling, Edo period, Georges Bataille, Religious organization, Censure, Their Child, Early Buddhism, Theology, I Wish (manhwa), Rationality, Religion, Christian, Guanyin, Nichiren, Celibacy