Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. This book explores how imagery is used in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during the contemporary rituals of birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture.
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2018
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| 520 | |a Cover -- Imagery, Ritual, and Birth -- Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Birth Imagery and OntologicalTransformation -- Chapter 1 -- Birth and Death in the Arts and Humanities -- A Male-Oriented History of Ideas -- The Influence of Puritan Ideology -- Resistance to the Topic of Birth within Feminism and Women's Studies -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Religious Objects and the Sheela-na-gig -- Social Ontology and a Definition of Religion -- Determining the Secular and the Nonreligious -- Social Ontology and a Sociology of the Sacred -- The Sheela-na-gig -- A. The Sheela-na-gig as Sacred Religious Object -- The Sheela-na-gig as Sacred-Profane Religious Object -- The Sheela-na-gig as Profane Religious Object -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- The Social Ontology of Birth -- Ontology and Social Ontology -- The Social Ontology of the Sheela-na-gig -- Diagramming the Construction of Social Ontology and Objects Used in Birth -- Visualized Mental Imagery and the Philosophy of Mind -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Secularization of Religious Objects During Birth -- The Sheela-na-gig -- South Asian Image of a Divine Figure Giving Birth -- Tlazolteotl -- Pachamama -- Secularization of the Madonna and Child -- The Woman of Willendorf -- Egyptian Goddess Imagery -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Art as Sacred Symbol in Birth as a Rite of Passage -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Nonreligion and the Sacred in New Images of Birth -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- New Feminisms and Decolonizing Birth -- Birth and Mothering as Sites of Power and Healing for Women -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. | ||
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