Research Catalog

Title

Redeeming men : religion and masculinities / Stephen B. Boyd, W. Merle Longwood, Mark W. Muesse, editors.

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boyd, Stephen Blake.
• Longwood, W. Merle, 1939-
• Muesse, Mark W. (Mark William), 1957-

Description

xxii, 306 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Men (Christian theology)
• Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Men's movement

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-302) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Fear and power in the lives of men / Steve Smith -- Masculinity and male dominance: Martin Luther on the punishment of Adam / Stephen B. Boyd -- God's phallus and the dilemmas of masculinity / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- Christian piety and the legacy of medieval masculinity / Ulrike Wiethaus -- Malcolm X's religious pilgrimage: from black separatism to a universal way / Fareed Munir -- Is it manly to be Christian? The debate in Victorian and modern America / Evelyn A. Kirkley -- Religious machismo: masculinity and fundamentalism / Mark W. Muesse.
• Policing gender: moral purity movements in pre-Nazi Germany and contemporary America / John C. Fout -- The accommodating other: masculinity and the construction of feminine identity / Merlyn E. Mowrey -- Defending their people and their faith: native American men and the construction of masculinity / Christopher Ronwaniente Jocks -- Of mice and supermen: images of Jewish masculinity / Harry Brod -- "I took it like a man": survival and hope among poor men / Timothy Nonn -- Re-membering John the Baptist / Mikeal C. Parsons -- Initiation and the male spiritual quest / Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette.
• Men and the promise of goddess spirituality: reflections along the way / Seth Mirsky -- The thunder of new wings: AIDS--a journey beyond belief / William F. Brantley -- Magnificent manhood: the transcendent witness of Howard Thurman / Alton B. Pollard, III -- Changing views of fathering and fatherhood: a Christian ethical perspective / W. Merle Longwood -- Gay men, masculinity, and an ethic of friendship / J. Michael Clark -- Men whose lives I trust, almost / Carter Heyward -- Male sexuality and the fragile planet: a theological reflection / James B. Nelson.

ISBN

0664255442 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96021403^

OCLC

• 34690675
• SCSB-12198301

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library