It also requires immersion of women each month in a ritual bath and, for men, circumcision.
The process requires one year of learning, circumcision (for males), and the taking of the vow that Ruth took.
But they do require circumcision for infant boys and, since 1986, have been training both men and women physicians to perform the rite.
Judaism requires circumcision for boys, but does not allow it for girls.
Most Reform rabbis do not require mikvah and circumcision.
They are converts to Islam, which requires circumcision.
Carmichael states that conversion to Judaism requires circumcision, the taking of a Hebrew name and a ritual bath known as a mikvah.
Like most Christian churches, Mormonism does not require circumcision, denying its necessity as a covenant or token of covenant.