Religious Rituals and Secular Rituals: Interpenetrating Models of Childbirth in a Modern, Israeli Context
Women interviewed at a maternity hospital in Jerusalem were found to have selected childbirth rituals from a very large ritual reservoir, gleaned from diverse religious and nonreligious sources. This chapter argues that previous studies of childbirth rituals may well have underestimated the extent t...
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Oxford Univ. Press
1993
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-114 |
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