5/5 (1) OCTOBER 2, 2015 Words: Henry Omware When she returned, she found that the baby’s penis had been chopped off in a botched circumcision. Some events startle because they are unthinkable. A botched circumcision is one of such incident … Read More
Abstract The Bible portrays circumcision as having an important role in Israelite culture. Consequently, circumcision has received a great deal of scholarly attention. Some have viewed it as having an “internal” role, for example, for rites of fertility and marriage, … Read More
4/5 (1) By Rabbi Benjamin Shalva It looks as if 4-year-old Chase Ryan Nebus-Hironimus is about to go under the knife. As a rabbi who has officiated at numerous circumcisions and as a father who, back in the day, held … Read More
For many years my dinner-party claim to fame was that I was circumcised by the same rabbi who performed the procedure on Prince Charles. Prince George of Cambridge Photo: AP By Harry Wallop 3:05PM BST 31 Mar 2015 It is one of … Read More
“Circumcised boys not allowed in this school” Sila Koskei Standard Digital News, Feb. 27, 2015 Available on the Standard Digital News website Cengalo Primary School Headmaster Leboo Ngiroi. [PHOTO: ELIUD KIPSANG] Uasin Gishu, Kenya: Circumcision is considered a mandatory cultural … Read More
Shemuel Toviah Garber, Wesleyan University Read the full text in PDF format. Publication Date: 5-23-2013 Recommended Citation: Garber, Shemuel Toviah, “The Circular Cut: Problematizing the Longevity of Civilization’s Most Aggressively Defended Amputation” (2013). Honors Theses – All. Paper 1137. http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1137 Rate this article's … Read More
Full text available in PDF format for members (above) Abstract: Male circumcision is a well-publicised phenomenon, but much of what is known at the international level concerns neonatal medical circumcision in some Western countries and ritual circumcision among young … Read More
5/5 (2) by James E. Peron, Ed.D. Spring 2000 Available at http://www.cirp.org/library/history/peron2/ CIRCUMCISION: THEN AND NOW By: James E. Peron, Ed.D. Milah: Symbolic Circumcision of Covenant The original Biblical circumcision of Abraham’s time was a relatively minor ritual circumcision procedure in … Read More
Full text available in PDF format (above) Summary: The circumcision rite, once a tradition of this tribal African people, has all but vanished from Tshidi today. Having stood for the pre-colonial socio-cultural order, the practice has more or less … Read More
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