Men And Masculinities In Christianity And Judaism
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Author | : Bjorn Krondorfer |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2013-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334049024 |
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Bjorn Krondorfer, one of the leading scholars in this field, has collected 35 key texts that have shaped this field within the wider area of the study of gender, religion and culture. The texts in this critical reader engage actively and critically with the position of men in society and church, men's privileged relation to the sacred and to religious authority, the ideals of masculinity as engendered by religious discourse, and alternative trajectories of being in the world, whether spiritually, relationally or sexually. Each of the texts is introduced by the editor and accompanied by bibliographies that make this the ideal tool for study.
Author | : Stephen Blake Boyd |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664255442 |
Download Redeeming Men Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Contributors to this book--historians, biblical specialists, theologians, ethicists, and scholars of comparative religions--examine the relationship between religious tradition and manhood. The essays cover a broad range of topics--from the dynamics of power in shaping masculine identity, to the role religion plays in shaping masculine identity, to the experience of myth, ritual, spiritual discipline, and community in the lives of men.
Author | : Howard Eilberg-Schwartz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1994-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780756784317 |
Download God's Phallus And Other Problems for Men And Monotheism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The God of the Hebrew Bible is clearly male, yet until now no scholar has asked how God's maleness affects human men. In this groundbreaking volume, Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, an ordained rabbi, uses close readings of the Hebrew Bible, as well as insights from feminist & gender criticism, anthropology, & psychoanalysis, to explore the dilemmas created by the maleness of God for the men of ancient Judaism & for Jewish men today. In this absorbing & provocative exploration of the problems raised when men worship a male god (while trying to avoid the sexual implications of that worship at the same time), he uncovers many of the tensions & contradictions that bedevil conceptions of masculinity & male bonding to this day.
Author | : Ruth Mazo Karras |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812253027 |
Download Thou Art the Man Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This book is a work of medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. It looks at the biblical King David, who has multiple paradigmatic identities in the Middle Ages: king, military leader, adulterous lover, sinner. It views David primarily from the perspective of medieval European Christian society but also from the medieval European Jewish viewpoint"--
Author | : Howard Eilberg-Schwart |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780807012253 |
Download God's Phallus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
God's Phallus explores the dilemmas created by the maleness of God for the men of ancient Judaism and for Jewish men today.
Author | : Daniel Gerster |
Publisher | : Ergon Verlag |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Masculinity |
ISBN | : 9783956504532 |
Download God's Own Gender? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Throughout the history of religions, their holy texts and norms have been sources of images of men in societies around the world and have presented forms of masculinity that have found expression in religious acts and rituals. This volume examines how this reciprocal influence has shifted over time by bringing together research on different religious traditions from noted experts in the field, such as Bjorn Krondorfer, Yvonne Maria Werner and John Powers. It analyses similarities and differences in the interwoven relationships between specific religions and between concepts and practices of masculinity in different societies and cultures, such as Western forms of Christianity during the 19th and 20th centuries, European Judaism and Arabic Islam during the Middle Ages, and South Asian Buddhism and Hinduism. This book is the first to compare research on a variety of religions and forms of masculinity, and thereby contributes to the steadily growing field of interdisciplinary research on (critical) men's studies in Religion.
Author | : Sarah Imhoff |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253026369 |
Download Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others. How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men. “There is so much literature—and very good scholarship—on Judaism and gender, but the majority of that literature reflects an interest in women. A hearty thank you to Sarah Imhoff for writing the other half of the story and for doing it so elegantly.” —Claire Elise Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism “Invariably lucid and engaging, Sarah Imhoff provides a secure foundation for how religion shaped American masculinity and how masculinity shaped American Judaism in the early twentieth century.” —Judith Gerson, author of By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Memory
Author | : Björn Krondorfer |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2009-12-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0804773432 |
Download Male Confessions Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.
Author | : L. Delap |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137281758 |
Download Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men's diverse religious cultures in a variety of contexts.
Author | : Adriaan van Klinken |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317007549 |
Download Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Studies of gender in African Christianity have usually focused on women. This book draws attention to men and constructions of masculinity, particularly important in light of the HIV epidemic which has given rise to a critical investigation of dominant forms of masculinity. These are often associated with the spread of HIV, gender-based violence and oppression of women. Against this background Christian theologians and local churches in Africa seek to change men and transform masculinities. Exploring the complexity and ambiguity of religious gender discourses in contemporary African contexts, this book critically examines the ways in which some progressive African theologians, and a Catholic parish and a Pentecostal church in Zambia, work on a 'transformation of masculinities'.