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Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

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

Departing from both the ordinary defences and criticisms that surround the practice of Jewish ritual of circumcision, this book offers a new way of thinking about violence, drawing on the thought of Derrida and Sofsky to explain circumcision as a form of generative or productive violence that is inherent in the making of bodies.

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