TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sasson,Vanessa R.
AU  - Law,Jane Marie
ED  - American Academy of Religion.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Imagining the fetus: the unborn in myth, religion, and culture 
T2  - American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series
AV  - BL256 .I43 2009
U1  - 202/.2 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Fetus
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "American Academy of Religion."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus -- The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos -- The great men of Jainism in utero: a survey -- A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences -- Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature -- Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus -- Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation -- Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism -- Embryology in Babylonia and the bible  -- The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature -- Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives -- A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature -- The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story -- Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory -- Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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ER  -