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This book brings together the work of an international team of experts investigating the intersection of bisexuality, religion and spirituality.

Based on extensive research among Cistercian monks and nuns, this book examines social relations in monasteries, examining the ways in which collective rituals and manual work both foster solidarity and create division, and developing a novel, far-reaching conceptualization of fraternal relations.

Departing from both the ordinary defences and criticisms that surround the practice of Jewish ritual of circumcision, this book offers a new way of thinking about violence, drawing on the thought of Derrida and Sofsky to explain circumcision as a form of generative or productive violence that is inherent in the making of bodies.