Motherhood, Spirituality and Culture - 9781138601376

Name: Motherhood, Spirituality and Culture - 9781138601376
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Motherhood, Spirituality and CultureAuthor(s): Noelia Molina\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138601376, 978-1138601376\nSynopsis\nMotherhood, Spirituality and Culture explores spiritual skills that may assist women in changes, challenges and transformations undergone through the transition to motherhood. This study comprises rich, qualitative data gathered from interviews with 11 mothers. Results are analysed by constructing seven unique maternal narratives that elucidate and give voice to the mothers in their transition by in depth exploration of six themes emerging from the analysis. Overall discussion ranges across such realities as:\n\n desires, expectations and illusions for mothering;\n\n birth and spiritual embodied experiences of mothering;\n\n instinctual knowing; identity and crisis, and connections of motherhood;\n\n changes and transformations undergone through motherhood.\n\nThis study presents a un.