The body is an important topic in the study of religion today, as it is in other fields of social…
Karin Neutel
Karin Neutel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo. Her current project, “The Letter, the Spirit and the Foreskin: Perceptions of Paul in the Contemporary Debate on Male Circumcision,” analyzes the Christian roots of attitudes toward circumcision, religion, and the body in Europe and the United States. She is associated with the research center Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt, Germany, and is a fellow at the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
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Not in the body
April 23, 2018
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case…