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"This is a first-rate cross-cultural study, taking the reader to the heart of another society's beliefs and practices."--Mark Archer, The Sunday Telegraph
"Both Buddhism and abortion flourish in modern Japan: the link between them is death. William LaFleur explains how this has come about, and in doing so provides an unusual insight into the character of modern Japan, where death is a big-money operation both for medicine and for religion."--Thomas Crump, London Review of Books
"Objective, informed, observant, and imaginative. William LaFleur not only enlarges our knowledge, he also uses his single topic to illuminate a broad and fundamental feature of Japanese society itself."--Donald Richie, Japan Times Weekly
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, exploring how the Japanese resolve their conflicting emotions privately and avoid the pro-life/pro-choice politics that sharply divide Americans on the issue.
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1992. Japan, Asia. Princeton University Press. Very good cloth and dust jacket 257p. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5658
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Zustand: Gut. 275 p. In good condition. - "William LaFleur's book does what the best books being written about Japan now do: it uses a specific topic-in this case, abortion-to illuminate very broad and fundamental features of Jap-anese society, and then uses the Japanese case to shed new light on more universal issues. One can learn a great deal about Japanese Buddhism, thought, and psychology from this book, as well as gaining insight into the intellectual issues of the abortion debate." -- -Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawaii -- 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, exploring how the Japa-nese resolve their conflicting emotions privately and avoid the pro-1 ife/pro- choice politics that sharply divide Americans on the issue. ISBN 9780691074054 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 585 Original cloth with dustjacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1226003
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