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Circumcision has played a significant cultural, social, and religious role in various global cultures over the course of world history. This has subsequently led to widely varying views related to the practice.
The rite plays a major role in the Abrahamic faiths. Mainstream forms of Judaism view the practice as an integral and central religious obligation that is one of the most important commandments for Jews, while differing schools of interpretation within Islam view it either as an obligation or recommended. With the exception of the Coptics, Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox where circumcision is an integral or established or requirement practice for members of these churches, the large majority of mainstream Christian denominations maintain a neutral position on it in, although all of them honor the circumcision of Jesus and condemn the rite when it is viewed as a means or requirement towards an individual's justification. Male circumcision is widely practiced among Christian communities in the Anglosphere countries, Oceania, South Korea, the Philippines, the Middle East and Africa. Circumcision is widely practiced by the Druze, the procedure is practiced as a cultural tradition, and has no religious significance in the Druze faith.