"Male circumcision is a powerful site through which questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality and psyche have been negotiated throughout human history. In recent years, a global movement of 'intactivists' have fuelled heated debate internationally around their demand to kee…
Introduction /James L.A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick ; Pt. 1. Looking back: The long history of smallpox eradication: lessons for global health in Africa /William H. Schneider --The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa: les…
BACKGROUND: Despite the history of U.S.-based partners leading global health programs in low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries, sustainable models of health care rely on local country partners leading the way. Transition is the process of shifting funder-led programs towards c…
This dissertation argues that believer’s baptism by immersion should precede communion as prerequisite to it, due to the explicit example of the New Testament, the assumed pattern that all believers are baptized, and a principle of analogy (continuity) from the necessity of circ…
This research critically analyzes the practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among circumcising groups in Africa and discovers the rite can be classified as a cleansing ritual. Historically FGC is understood as a cultural tradition. Little emphasis has been placed upon uncover…
This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
Since Julius Wellhausen's synthesis of the Documentary Hypothesis—and no doubt owing in part to the Protestant Reformation—dominant portrayals of the Priestly material have described a self-interested legist with little or no concern for those outside the Levitical ranks. Though…
Sünnet, mana ve muhtevasını vahyin belirlediği, İslam’ın tebliğ, tebyin ve tatbik seyrinin tabiî sonucu, fıtrat ve dinin müşterek zeminidir. İslam’ı yaşayış biçimine istikamet olan sünnet, boyutları aşan derinlik, genişlik ve muhtevası ile dinin aslını teşkil etmektedir. Nasları…
Readers of scripture, from antiquity to modernity, have acknowledged the significance of circumcision. The Rabbis averred “Great is circumcision, for it is of equal weight to all the commandments in the Torah” ( b. Ned. 32a). More than a millennium later, Gunkel (1997:365) echoe…
How does the ritualist conceptualize the educational elements of the brit milah process? Jewish educators function in diverse roles and venues. Teachers formally instruct in classroom settings, camp counselors informally teach in the bunk or dining hall and clergy teach about ou…
This study focused on the knowledge and exposure of obstetrical nursing supervisors to the practice of female genital mutilation/female circumcision. Anecdotal data indicates that immigrant women who are affected by FGM/FC, are frequenting delivery rooms in United States hospita…
This dissertation presents readings across a series of disparate texts in which circumcision—as initiating Jewish rite or descendant metaphor—functions as an interpretive key. The mark of circumcision has served as the rhetorical ground upon which much negative stereotyping—espe…
The main exegetical contribution of "Neither Jew nor Gentile, but Both: Paul's 'Christians' as 'Gentile-Jews'" is original readings of passages in Paul's epistle to the Romans. These interpretations are the result of new perspectives on identity construction provided in particul…
This dissertation examines the trace of circumcision in modern Malay/sian art. The term 'Malay/sian' is used in this dissertation to refer to Malaysians of Malay descent with Islamic affiliation. This research is premised on the hypothesis that the cultural politics that defines…