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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2022, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-50 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Birth stories B Storytelling B Ritual B Implicit Religion |
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| Summary: | 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 birth experience in narrative form allows for the restoration of personal equilibrium and earnest exploration of paradoxical emotions and unmet expectations. I interrogate the definitions of ritual generally present in scholarship of pregnancy and birth, eventually arguing that the narration of birth stories can function as an implicit, world-repairing, reclamation ritual owned by the birthing person, themselves, following from Edward Bailey’s Implicit Religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2022.2005712 |