[PDF.78cc] Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

[PDF.zw57] Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

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 | #835651 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1994-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.64 x6.00l,.82 | File type: PDF | 275 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant and Necessary|By Lynn Hoffman, author:Radiation Days: A Comedy|This is, of course, a book about Japan and Japanese attitudes

toward birth, death and the fragility of life. Because it is

also a book about abortion, it also touches on an issue that

is incredibly hot in America even as abortion has become

an uncontroversial f| |"This is a first-rate cross-cultural study, taking the reader to the heart of another society's beliefs and practices."--Mark Archer, The Sunday Telegraph

"Both Buddhism and abortion flourish in modern Japan: the link between them is d

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, ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan   |  William R. LaFleur. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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