Liquid Life : : Abortion and Buddhism in Japan / / William R. LaFleur.
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 t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 12 b&w photos 3 graphs |
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