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This chapter has to do with religious rituals directed at the experience o women in North America and Japan who have undergone abortions. Ir each case, they are rituals aimed at the healing of a particular cultural construction of grief and guilt predicated upon a particular ethnopsycholog of the person. I will first present the North American ritual and ther contrast it with a parallel ritual in contemporary Japan.
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© 2002 Thomas J. Csordas
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Csordas, T.J. (2002). A Handmaid’s Tale. In: Body/Meaning/Healing. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08286-2_4
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