Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
Autor Na'ama Carlinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2024
Intervening in contemporary debates on the Jewish ritual of circumcision, it departs from both the ordinary secular defences of circumcision for medical reasons, and the criticisms that consider it an unethical violation of bodies that cannot consent. An examination of the intersection of violence and morality, this book rejects the binary logic 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’. Engaging with the works of Jacques Derrida, the author puts forward a framework of violence of ontology, which is characterised as a violence that is related to existence, the violence of being, which resists definition through binary oppositions. In so doing, 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367551964
ISBN-10: 0367551969
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367551969
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1. Problematising Violence and Morality
Chapter 2. Conceptualising Circumcision
Chapter 3. The Genesis of Jewish Ritual Circumcision
Chapter 4. Agency, authorship, and Writing in the Making of the Self
Chapter 5. From Rite to Write
Conclusion: The Cut that Makes Whole
Bibliography
Chapter 1. Problematising Violence and Morality
Chapter 2. Conceptualising Circumcision
Chapter 3. The Genesis of Jewish Ritual Circumcision
Chapter 4. Agency, authorship, and Writing in the Making of the Self
Chapter 5. From Rite to Write
Conclusion: The Cut that Makes Whole
Bibliography
Notă biografică
Na’ama Carlin is a sociologist in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Descriere
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.