Circumcision

people from Equiano’s town he “smokes” from a pipe which was a luxury to those people. This creator was the organizer of events especially for deaths or the ones in captivity. Equiano’s religion wasn’t far from Jewish religion, they also practice circumcisions just like the Jews and also made lots of offerings and feasts on that occasion in the same manner Jews…

The best way to begin the book called Paul the Missionary is to define the term “mission.” According to the book, the word “mission” as “intentionality and movement” (22). Moreover, Schnabel uses Jesus and Paul’s ministry as the examples of missions. Paul describes Jesus’ mission as “movement from God into the world and in terms of the intentionality of Jesus’ mission in Galatians 4:4-5” (26). Furthermore, in Galatians 1:1 and 15-16 describes Paul’s mission as movement and intentionality.…

As an individual there is always something new that will intrigue us and without thinking much about it, we just want to delve into understanding and learning that which caught our attention. This is one reason why we need to be aware of the different cultures that are out there. I must admit that with little or no exposure this can be difficult. Beyond the understanding, the most important aspects are how these differences are communicated and the different verbal codes and gestures that are…

oath takers felt a theme of rebirth, now born a true Kikuyu who called themselves ‘circumcised’. This oath had special meaning to the kikuyu people with elements of precolonial oath-taking, and elements reminiscent of the Gikuyu second-birth and circumcision ceremonies. The Batuni (platoon) oath, or the muma was ngero (the oath for killing), varied more compared to the unity oath, but all the oath takers agree that it was stronger. The oath had a more taboo like rituals, with things like…

people as single entities who are unconnected and emphasizes on freedom rights to confidentiality and choice. Within this approach in HIV prevention, medical professionals demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of specific tools, such as male circumcision and condoms. This is done on the basis of evidence that vulnerable individuals who are rational ought to take control of their individual lives.1They are, therefore, advised, informed, and counseled on how to act, behave, or adopt…

The first area of knowledge I will be looking at is Ethics. It appears that in this area, culturally derived concepts shape the moral conclusions (for example values) that people reach thus leading to apparent diversity. In order to challenge this apparent diversity one can explore two contrasting principles Cultural relativism and Soft Universalism. Cultural relativism states that there is a diversity of ethical codes and that there are no universal moral principles. The first example I will…

‘“Night to His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender,” Judith Lorber’s article written in the mid 90s, describes western societies as having two genders: men and women. Lorber explains that, while they not wholly separate genders, transvestities and transexuals are “crossover genders” (2007: 43) floating in between society’s two genders. Society’s framework for gender affects everything a person does from the moment that person is born, without them even knowing it. The clothes a person wears,…

Throughout this semester, we have been reading a variety of different books that cover a wide range of topics that range from religious freedom to the stories of those who are affected by war. For my paper, I chose to focus on the topic of how feminism is different in the non-Western world compared to those who live in the Western world. I chose to focus on the books, I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde and the book The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. For the first book, focused…

From the first century A.D. to the fourth century A.D., the ideas, development and practice of Christianity changed tremendously from a small Jewish sect during the first century who was among one of the most persecuted groups in the Roman Empire to becoming the state religion of all of the Roman empire during the fourth century. Even though Jerusalem was the birthplace of the religion of Christianity, it was not such a success in this region, in actuality the success of the religion came from…

My favorite chapter in the book is chapter two, because it touches all bases of the lifestyle within Khartoum, except for the gendered rituals such as female circumcision. It was sad to read that civil war between men forced women and children to take on a nomadic lifestyle. The examples provided on pages sixty and sixty-one put me in better perspective about Sudan. “I don’t have money that covers my needs and living…