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English
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Maternal Practices as Religious Piety : The Pedagogical Practices of American Latter-day Saint Women
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Women and Christianity
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Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Praeger/ABC-CLIO
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"Women within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) offer an instructive lens through which to view how maternal practices, specifically childbirth and raising children, shape traditional religious women and contribute to their religious devotion. Drawing upon an ethnographic study, this chapter explores how maternal practices are religious practices that act to alter the interior of women, particularly women from an American LDS community. As such, they are pedagogical tools that contribue to subjectivity, or personhood, and have the potential to transform women into more pious subjects. After introducing the LDS Church, and the ethnographic and methodological specifics of the study, this chapter will examine pedagogies of maternity as religious praxis and explore the ensuing theoretical implications; analyze notions of agency and subjectivitiy; and reflect on the pedagies and transformative gifts of parenthood." [From author's introduction]