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Title:
Faith and fertility : attitudes towards reproductive practices in different religions from ancient to modern times / edited by Eric Blyth and Ruth Landau ; foreword by Richard Harries.
Publisher:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
256 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Infertility.
Religion and Medicine.
Reproductive Techniques.
Human reproduction--Religious aspects.
Other Authors:
Blyth, Eric.
Landau, Ruth, 1946-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
A Roman Catholic perspective on fertility issues : objective truths, moral absolutes, and the natural law / Jim Richards -- Anglican faith and reasoning : wrestling with fertility issues / Phyllis Creighton -- Islamic identity and the ethics of assisted reproduction / Mohammad Iqbal and Ray Noble -- Hinduism and reproduction in contemporary India : Vedic learnings / Gautam N. Allahbadia, Swati G. Allahbadia, and Sulbha Arora -- Chinese traditional belief systems, livelihood, and fertility / Geok Ling Lee, Celia Hoi Yan Chan, Elizabeth Wai-Hing Choi Hui, and Cecilia Lai Wan Chan -- Buddhist family values : fertility and technological intervention in the quest for enlightenment / Michael G. Barnhart -- Broken calabashes : Yoruba traditional faith / Titilayo O. Aderibigbe -- Give me children or else I am dead : Orthodox Jewish perspectives on fertility / Rabbi Gideon Weitzman -- Faith and fertility in reform Jewish thought / Mark Washofsky.
ISBN:
1843105357 (alk. paper)
9781843105350 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)262893428
LCCN:
2009012311
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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