Assertion: circumcision | /r/HasProperty | a rite of passage
Facets:
value: into manhood
type: OTHER
value: in east africa
type: LOCATION
value: from childhood
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Circumcision in East Africa is a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood, but is only practiced in some nations (tribes).
text: In most of Europe, both the government and the unlearned Jewish masses believed circumcision to be a rite akin to baptism, and the law allowed communities not to register uncircumcised children as Jewish.
text: In East Africa, specifically in Kenya among various so-classified Bantu and Nilotic peoples, such as the Maragoli and Idakho of the Luhya super-ethnic group, the Kikuyu, Kalenjin and Maasai, circumcision is a rite of passage observed collectively by a number of boys every few years, and boys circumcised at the same time are taken to be members of a single age set.
text: Circumcision in Oceania and Australia was a rite of passage into manhood as well as a test of bravery.
text: For Nilotic peoples, such as the Kalenjin and Maasai, circumcision is a rite of passage observed collectively by a number of boys every few years, and boys circumcised at the same time are taken to be members of a single age set.
text: Although circumcision is not referenced in the Qur’an, circumcision is a rite of passage into manhood.