A history of pregnancy in Christianity: from original sin to contemporary abortion debates
Part I. Beginnings: theory, late antiquity (200-500), and the medieval period (500-1500). Conceptualizing pregnancy -- Patterns of meaning: pregnancy in late antiquity -- Christian procreation according to Augustine -- Pregnancy and abortion in medieval society -- Exceptional bodies: saints, relics,...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York London
Routledge
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Stensvold, Anne, A History of Pregnancy in Christianity: From Original Sin to Contemporary Abortion Debates] (2017) (Stensvold, Anne)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Pregnancy
/ Abortion
/ Human image
/ Woman
/ Christian ethics
/ History 200-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Pregnancy
History
B Pregnancy Religious aspects Christianity B Abortion Moral and ethical aspects |
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| Summary: | Part I. Beginnings: theory, late antiquity (200-500), and the medieval period (500-1500). Conceptualizing pregnancy -- Patterns of meaning: pregnancy in late antiquity -- Christian procreation according to Augustine -- Pregnancy and abortion in medieval society -- Exceptional bodies: saints, relics, and dissection -- Part II. The Enlightenment: from the Reformation to modernity (1400-1700). The Reformation: Protestantism, life, and marriage -- Theories of procreation -- Varieties of scientific truth: Descartes, deism, and relativism -- Part III. Modernity: 1800-1900. The female egg and medical inventions -- The divine conception: religious reactions to modernity -- Fertility under debate: race, reason, and religion at the turn of the century -- Part IV. Contemporary debates: the twentieth century to the present. Women and the virgin in the twentieth century: feminism and modern attitudes towards pregnancy -- Legal abortion: the rise of liberal-democratic ideas of gender equality -- Foetus or child?: Christian reactions to feminism -- Objectification: women in contemporary culture |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0415857589 |