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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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| 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 (motif) (Man)
/ Body
/ Secularism
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| RelBib 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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