Pregnancy and childbirth through the prism of various religions

Jolanta Olszewska; Agnieszka Czerwińska - Osipiak; Anna Michalik; Katarzyna Kunat

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Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa

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Pregnancy and childbirth through the prism of various religions

Jolanta Olszewska

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,

Agnieszka Czerwińska - Osipiak

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,

Anna Michalik

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,

Katarzyna Kunat

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Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny

Online publish date: 2014/02/21

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Religion is man’s one of the most important of social phenomena, because it shapes the culture but above all underlines the individuality of the nation or ethnic group. Each of the religions, already present in the modern world, base their assumptions and functioning of the sacred writings or books in which as one of the most important written followers opinions on, inter alia, fertility, conception, abortion, and other areas of life. Religions referred to in this work are characterized by a different outlook on the habits and rituals directly involving to the pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.

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Pregnancy and childbirth through the prism of various religions

Jolanta Olszewska 1 , Agnieszka Czerwińska - Osipiak 1 , Anna Michalik 1 , Katarzyna Kunat 1

religion; rituals; pregnancy; birth, customs

Jolanta Olszewska

¹

,

Agnieszka Czerwińska - Osipiak

¹

,

Anna Michalik

¹

,

Katarzyna Kunat

¹