TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carlin,Na'ama
TI  - Morality, violence, and ritual circumcision: writing with blood 
T2  - Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
SN  - 9781003092377
U1  - 392.1 23/eng/20220825
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Circumcision
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Violence
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Introduction -- Problematising Violence and Morality -- Conceptualising Circumcision -- The Genesis of Jewish Ritual Circumcision -- Agency, Authorship, and Writing in the Making of the Self From Rite to Write -- Conclusion: The Cut that Makes Whole
N2  - "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 defences of circumcision for medical reasons or on grounds of religious freedom, and the criticisms that consider it an unethical violation of bodies that cannot consent. An examination of the intersection of violence and morality, it rejects the binary of violence and morality 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'. Drawing on the thought of Wolfgang Sofsky, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida, 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. As such, this volume offers a compelling framework that investigates the relationship between bodies, identities, ethics and violence, and will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and religion with interests in the sociology of the body, ritual and cultural studies"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003092377
ER  -