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Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

Carlin, Na'ama

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion

JudaismAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367551950
ISBN13: 9780367551957
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2022
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book uses the Jewish ritual of circumcision to consider how violent acts are embedded within entrenched moral discourses and offers a new perspective for thinking about violence.

Intervening in contemporary debates on the Jewish ritual of circumcision, it departs from both the ordinary secular defences of circumcision for medical reasons, and the criticisms that consider it an unethical violation of bodies that cannot consent. An examination of the intersection of violence and morality, this book rejects the binary logic on which popular debates on circumcision hinge, arguing that in some instances violence can be a productive experience and can thus be considered beyond 'good' and 'bad'. Engaging with the works of Jacques Derrida, the author puts forward a framework of violence of ontology, which is characterised as a violence that is related to existence, the violence of being, which resists definition through binary oppositions. In so doing, the author contends that circumcision is in fact a form of generative violence that is leveraged for cultural purposes and inherent in the making of bodies.

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