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Publication Date: January 2000
Publisher: National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)
Author(s): Daniel S. Brenner
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: Psychology; Ritual; Family
Type: Other
Abstract:
The author defends the rite of circumcision as an act of ritualized violence that establishes a bond between natural enemies - father and son - and describes how circumcising his twin sons made him feel like a man.