Publication: Is the body secular? Circumcision, religious freedom, and bodily integrity
Is the body secular? Circumcision, religious freedom, and bodily integrity
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Amesbury, R. (2016). Is the body secular? Circumcision, religious freedom, and bodily integrity. DISKUS. The on-Disk Journal of International Religious Studies, 18(1), 1–10. http://jbasr.com/ojs/index.php/jbasr/article/view/5
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Recent legal and public debates over circumcision in Germany have tended to pit religious freedom against bodily integrity. This paper examines the background assumptions about religion and the body on which this framing depends. Insofar as the body is assumed to represent a fixed point determinable independently of ‘religion’, to frame the debate over circumcision in terms of a clash between rights pertaining respectively to religion and the body is, I argue, to circumscribe and contain religion within boundaries marked by the non-re
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Amesbury, R. (2016). Is the body secular? Circumcision, religious freedom, and bodily integrity. DISKUS. The on-Disk Journal of International Religious Studies, 18(1), 1–10. http://jbasr.com/ojs/index.php/jbasr/article/view/5
