24. Whose Rights? The Danish Debate on Ritual Infant Male Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 24. Whose Rights? The Danish Debate on Ritual Infant Male Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue - Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Mikael Aktor; University of Southern Denmark; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religion; History |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | comparative religion;law and religion; circumcision; human rights; public debate and scholarship |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The debate over ritual infant male circumcision has increasingly been thematized as a Human Rights issue. But the claims on such rights seem highly conflicting. In particular, the rights of the child seems to conflict with the freedom of religion of parents, the rights of religious and ethnic minorities, and the rights of family and privacy. This disagreement is also present among scholars of religion. A reading of public statements by scholars of religion in the ongoing Danish (and Norwegian) debate reveals the lack of consensus of the study of religion when it comes to matters that are of great concern both for religious minorities and for individual citizens. This chapter examines the Law and Human Rights documents behind these conflicting claims and discusses the role of the scholar of religion in the debate. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Feb-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/28112 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.28112 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Denmark, Contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |