Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life

Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities....

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