Children of the Waters

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

An ancient Japanese Buddhist ritual which involves a red baby bib, a small statue and water, has been taken up by women wanting to have some way of marking a miscarriage and the life not lived. New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani is a psychiatrist and writer doing research at the University of East Anglia. Her essay looks at the language we use for unborn children who die and at what we can learn about mourning rituals from the work of the nineteenth century French sociologist Emile Durkheim, to modern services performed by Rabbis, in cathedrals and in peoples' back gardens.

Producer: Ruth Watts

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0:40.1	I'm Sabina D'Assani. I'm a BBC Radio 3, Arts and Humanities Research Council,
0:45.6	New Generation Thinker. In this edition of the essay, I'm going to talk about rituals
0:50.9	that have helped women cope with the grief after miscarriage.
0:55.2	A woman stands in her small urban garden, floats flower heads in a shallow bowl of water,
1:01.3	lights incense sticks and then crouches to place a red baby bib onto a stone statue.
1:07.4	This Jutzo statue looks like a young child posing in the stance of a monk.
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