Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

Sacred Pregnancy is part a retrospective on changing paradigms of and feminist discourse on motherhood, part sociological study of changing religious demographics and understandings of religious experience in the United States, and part exploration of the spiritual movements and spiritually guided reproductive health services that bring all these themes together.

Resting on the premise that motherhood in general and pregnancy specifically should not be brushed aside as beneath intellectual i...