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Christian Moral Standards
Christian pregnancy cultural analysis
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Female Egg
fetal development history
Graeco Roman Context
Graeco Roman Culture
Graeco Roman World
human
Human Procreation
Immaculate Conception
IVF Treatment
Large Families
Legal Abortion
Marian Dogma
Mary's Immaculate Conception
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medicalization of pregnancy
Natural Birth Control
Pineal Gland
Pope Pius IX
Pregnant Demi Moore
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religious bioethics
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415857598
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines changing views of procreation and fetal development throughout the history of the Christian tradition. This is the first comprehensive study of cultural perceptions of pregnancy, an area of scholarship that been understudied in the past. Pregnancy holds a central place in Christian ritual, iconography, and theology, including the dogma of the incarnation and the cult of Virgin Mary. This book provides a broad introduction to the attitudes and ideas within Western Christian communities by focusing on four periods of transition: Antiquity, the Enlightenment, modernity, and the present day. It lays the groundwork for further study of the interactions between biological models, cultural preconceptions, and religious beliefs.
Anne Stensvold is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has written extensively on popular religion and religious change and is the editor of Western Balkans: The Religious Dimension (2009).
