Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion

This paper analyses how birth stories function ritually in the lives of the people who tell them, particularly in response to the way that birth uniquely challenges not only one’s sense of bodily boundaries and personal control, but also self-narrative coherency. Emplotting and organising one’s own...

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Main Author: Barbre, Morgan E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2022
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2022, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-50
Further subjects:B mommyblogs
B Birth stories
B Storytelling
B Ritual
B Implicit Religion
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