Is the Body Secular? Circumcision, Religious Freedom, and Bodily Integrity

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...

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Main Author: Amesbury, Richard 1972- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: British Association for the Study of Religions [2017]
In: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 18, Pages: 1-10
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious freedom / Liberty of religious exercise / Circumcision (Man) / Body / Secularism
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
XA Law
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