TY - BOOK ID - 101913072 TI - Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life AU - Wojtkowiak, Joanna AU - Mathijssen, Brenda PY - 2022 SN - 3036554165 3036554157 PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Religion & beliefs KW - priest KW - Ars moriendi KW - sharing death KW - death teacher KW - African birth ritual KW - ancestor worship KW - art KW - birth KW - birth altar KW - birthing justice KW - ceremony KW - child KW - childbirth KW - Chinese birth ritual KW - contemporary art KW - humanism KW - indigenous birth ritual KW - material culture KW - mother KW - nonreligion KW - nonreligious KW - pregnancy KW - religion KW - re-sacralization KW - rite of passage KW - ritual KW - sacred KW - secular KW - secularity KW - spirituality KW - symbol KW - traditional birth KW - grief KW - bereavement KW - death KW - pregnancy loss KW - embodiment KW - metaphor KW - rituals KW - cultural practices KW - Africa KW - memory making KW - function of ritualized acts KW - ritualization KW - neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) KW - new-born KW - bereaved parents KW - nurses KW - parent support group KW - existential KW - infrastructural breaks KW - sociology of repair KW - life-cycle rituals KW - funeral market KW - maternity care KW - tattoo KW - body-modification KW - identity KW - self-construction KW - Dimasa KW - death rituals KW - urban KW - ritual performance KW - personhood KW - motherhood KW - miscarriage KW - stillbirth KW - abortion KW - ritualizing KW - qualitative research KW - The Netherlands KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101913072 AB - Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities. They represent a beginning and an end, and lead to ritualizing as well as embodied forms of spirituality. Throughout the book, the authors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on rituals at birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as religious studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. By doing so, they shed light on new forms of ritualizing, as well as on traditional rituals. ER -