Only Skin Deep: Revising the Secular Narrative through Circumcision

Barras, Amélie; Dabby, Dia

doi:10.1163/9789004271371_006

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2019

2021

Publication Types

Select...

Article2

Book1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent3

Authors

Journals

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

Our Culture, Our Heritage, Our Values: Whose Culture, Whose Heritage, Whose Values?

Beaman¹

2021

Can. j. law soc.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reflects on the question of how culture and religion enter legal cases and public debates about the place of majoritarian religious symbols in diverse societies that have some democratic will to inclusion. In the context of the new diversity, the article considers how the articulation of “our culture and heritage” as a strategy for preserving “formerly” religious symbols and practices in public spaces excludes particular groups from the narrative of who “we” are as a nation. The reader is invited to consider how challenges to such symbols and practices might be articulated as a challenge to privilege and power and that a refusal to acknowledge those power relations puts the reputation of democracy and human rights at risk.

show abstract