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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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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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| Summary: | 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 to which the precise ritual packages of individuals are idiosyncratic. Factors encouraging idiosyncratic ritual selection among the women of this study include: multiple models of childbirth behavior, modernity, pluralism, lack of absolute ritual requirements, and multiple sources of childbirth information. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711844 |