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Circumcision
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Circumcision Judaism
(Heb.,
berit milah ‘
covenant of circumcision’). Following Genesis 17. 11–12, any child born of a Jewish mother is Jewish whether circumcised or not. None the less it is the duty of a Jewish father to have his son circumcised on the eighth day (
Shulḥān Arukh YD 260. 1). The operation is done by a
mohel who must be an observant Jew (
Sh.Ar. YD 264. 1).
Islam
Khitān is male circumcision. It is obligatory, though the details, and the age at which it is done, vary.
Khafḍ is female circumcision, which is not obligatory, but which is nevertheless regarded by many as according to
sunna—i.e. customary in the strong and religious sense.
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Circumcisions: Again.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Pediatrics; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...addressing potential medical benefits of circumcision[1-4] provide much food for thought. I agree with the Academy's Task Force on Circumcision[5] that the benefits of circumcision are not sufficient to recommend it routinely...
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Circumcision.(Health)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/17/2003; 700+ words
; Please write about circumcision, its medical benefits and adverse...are actively campaigning against circumcision a form of mutilation. What is...prepuce to expose the glans is called circumcision. (By the way, there is also...
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Circumcision Promotion Divides AIDS Activists
Magazine article from: In These Times; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; THE LAST TIME circumcision made headlines in New York City...community and a media dust-up. Now circumcision is news again in New York, but...department has decided to encourage male circumcision as an HIV-prevention method among...
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Circumcision for All in 2009.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 12/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...in Uganda will be mobilised for free circumcision beginning next year, the assistant...Government plans to introduce free mass circumcision before the end of 2009 as one of the...reduce HIV spread. He said the free circumcision would in the long run be available...
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Circumcision Opponents Energized by About-Face Of Academy of
Newspaper article from: Forward; 3/5/1999; 700+ words
; Forward 03-05-1999 Circumcision Opponents Energized by About...the Bible' NEW YORK -- Anti-circumcision activists are feeling energized...saying that the medical benefits of circumcision are not sufficient to recommend...
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Circumcision Policy Statement.(American Academy of Pediatrics)
Magazine article from: Pediatrics; 3/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...repudiate the routine practice of male circumcision. Over the past several decades, the...several policy statements on neonatal circumcision of the male infant.[1-3] Beginning...absolute medical indication for routine circumcision. In 1989, because of new research...
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Circumcision - the American Academy of Pediatrics modifies its stand.
Newspaper article from: Child Health Alert; 4/1/1989; 700+ words
; ...Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision, AAP News, page...1989) Comment: Circumcision is a very emotional...generally perform circumcisions, and the views of...not endorse routine circumcision, but instead acknowledged...
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Circumcision complications associated with the Plastibell device.(Scientific Letter)
Magazine article from: South African Medical Journal; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1999 and December 2005, 120 circumcision procedures were recorded in our...review. Seventy-nine hospital circumcisions were performed. Twenty complications...The indication for hospital circumcision was phimosis in 46 children...
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The circumcision decision TAPU MISA.
Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand); 7/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...and according to at least one anti-circumcision site, the whole to-snip-or-not...who wonder whether the tide against circumcision had more to do with fashion and ideology...are from the Pacific Islands, where circumcision has never gone out of fashion, though...
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Circumcision Results in Sexual Losses, Says International Coalition for Genital Integrity
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 5/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...dissatisfaction prior to the circumcision, and all thought it would...circumcised and normal men. Circumcision removes approximately 80...that still performs infant circumcisions. Worldwide, 3 percent...are in the United States. Circumcision removes more than just a...
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Circumcision
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...Jewish mystical thought, circumcision was seen as having removed...argued that the sign of circumcision was so integral to Jewish...Coryate, witnessed Jewish circumcisions during their sojourns abroad...is Romeyn de Hooghe's Circumcision in a Sephardic Family...
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circumcision
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
circumcision or posthetomy , is the operative removal...clitoris and parts of the labia ). Male circumcision has been read in the West to be a sign...which continued to practise infant male circumcision in Western Europe after the advent...
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Circumcision, Feast of the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Circumcision, Feast of the. The feast traditionally kept on 1 Jan., the 8th day of Christmas , in commemoration of Christ's circumcision. The observance dates from the mid-6th cent. Since it is recorded that when He was circumcised, the...
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Female Genital Mutilation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Africa, and parts of West Africa Female circumcision has been the subject of fascination...FGM) has tended to replace female circumcision as a more accurate description of the...Africa. There is no reference to female circumcision in the Qur ʾ an, and it is...
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Phimosis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...voluntary decision whether to have a circumcision operation or not. If any problems...time as an adult and usually requires circumcision, the surgical removal of the foreskin...surgical repair or plastic surgery, and circumcision. Conservative treatments should be...
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