[PDF.54fk] Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

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 | #833228 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

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 device.Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan   |  William R. LaFleur. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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