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• Anno: 2020
• Autore/i: Giulia Pedrucci (ed.)
• Catalogo: Scienze e Lettere
• Argomento: Storia delle religioni
• Collana: Sacra publica et privata
• ISBN: 978-88-6687-175-0
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How do religions deal with pregnancy and childbirth? This is the main question we aimed at answering during the International Workshop Pregnancies, Childbirths, and Religions: Rituals, Normative Perspectives, and Individual Appropriations. A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective from Antiquity to the Present at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (University of Erfurt). The aim is to analyze how religious discourses have described and influenced such natural and strictly female practices. Within a religious discourse, pregnancy can be a divine gift, childbirth can be virginal. Many other questions arose from this: As far as childbirth is concerned, impurity is a central issue; how do/did religions cope with the (perceived) impurity caused by the birth event? How can we explain the different attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth in the religious discourses? To what extent do (male) religious authorities and sacred texts dictate maternal practices in a normative way? Do they tell women how to get pregnant, what to do during the pregnancy and how to give birth? Do they blame women who cannot or do not want to have children? To what extent do women feel free to transgress without blaming themselves for not being a “good” women and obedient members of a specific religious tradition? In which way can/could women’s decision not to have children or disregard religious rules be perceived as religious individualization and autonomy from social inter-connectedness? Interestingly, in some cultures we can detect forms of “eugenics” via religious means.

INDICE

The Multifold Ways to Intertwin Pregnancies, Childbirths, And Religions. An Introduction
Giulia Pedrucci

FIRST SECTION
BIOLOGICAL PREGNANCIES AND CHILDBIRTHS

GIVING LIFE, FACING DEATH: RELIGIOUS RITUALS TO PROTECT THE MOTHER AND THE BABY DURING PREGNANCIES AND CHILDBIRTHS

Metafore del parto negli scongiuri dell’antica Mesopotamia
Lorenzo Verderame

Getting to the Roots of Eileithyia. Images and Context of Pregnancy in Crete from the Late Minoan III to the Archaic Period
Massimo Cultraro

Pregnancy and Birth in Ancient Greece: A Thick Description
Jan N. Bremmer

Protecting Mother and Child at Birth – Amulets and Prayers in Franconian Genizot
Rebecca Ullrich

Quels recours en cas de naissances difficiles ? La leçon des ex-voto dans l’Europe catholique (XVIe -XIXe siècles)
Marie-France Morel

PREGNANCIES, CHILDBIRTHS, AND RELIGIONS “AS A (MALE) INSTITUTION”: HOLY BOOKS, MYTHOLOGICAL NARRATIVES, INFLUENTIAL IMAGES, AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES

From Garbha Sanskar to Uttam Santati: Hindu Regulatory Frameworks for Ideal Pregnancy and Childbirth
Sucharita Sarkar

PREGNANCIES, CHILDBIRTHS, AND RELIGIONS AS LIVED FEMALE EXPERIENCE

The Single Mothers’ Experience of Pregnancy and Delivery in Morocco in Connection with Islamic Beliefs: Region of Fez-Meknes as a Case Study
Saddik Darai, Hasna Abbaoui, and Zouhir Adaoui

Impure, Hidden. Orthodox Christian Faith as a Factor Determining the Perception of Women’s Body
Kaja Kojder

SECOND SECTION

NON-BIOLOGICAL PREGNANCIES AND CHILDBIRTHS: NEGATION, NEGOTIATION, AND APPROPRIATION OF A BIOLOGICAL FEMALE EXPERIENCE IN RELIGIOUS NARRATIVES AND SACRED IMAGES

Not of Woman Born: gravidanze maschili e parto cesareo nel mondo greco e romano
Giulia Pedrucci

From Tomb to Womb: Adoption and Mimetic Re-birth in a Golden Leaf from Thurii (A1 Zuntz)
Georgia Petridou

Emanations, Emissions, and Eggs. Divine (Non-)Births in Hindu Mythology – a Commentary on Human and Nonhuman Existence?
Gerrit Lange

Ripristino della verginità come riparazione maniacale: un’interpretazione kleiniana di due miti contenuti nel Mah?bh?rata
Romina Rossi

Giulia Pedrucci is adjunct professor for Religious Studies at the University of Verona. She was Marie Sk?odowska Curie Cofund Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien (University of Erfurt).

F.to 17x24, pp. 264, Brossura filo refe