Numen, Old Men

Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy

Joseph Gelfer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2009
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84553-418-9 (ISBN)

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Since the early 1990s there have been various movements designed to encourage 'masculine spirituality'. All these movements share a concern that spirituality has become too feminine and that men's experiences of the spiritual are being marginalized. The task of masculine spirituality is to promote 'authentic' masculine characteristics within a spiritual context. Numen, Old Men examines these characteristics to argue that masculine spirituality is thinly veiled patriarchy. The mythopoetic, evangelical, and Catholic men's movements are shown to promote a hetero-patriarchal spirituality by appealing to either combative and oppressive neo-Jungian archetypes or biblical models of man as the leader of the family. Numen, Old Men examines spiritualities that aim to honour and transcend both the masculine and feminine, and offers gay spirituality as an example of masculine spirituality that resists patriarchy.

Joseph Gelfer is Adjunct Research Associate at the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia.

1. Introduction 2. The Mythopoetic Movement: Getting it Wrong from the Start 3. The Evangelical Men’s Movement: Networking, Violence and Sport 4. The Catholic Men’s Movement: Sacraments and Adoration 5. Integral or Muscular Spirituality? 6. Gay Spirituality: A Way Out for Men 7. Sexual Difference, Spirituality and Space 8. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2009
Reihe/Serie	Gender, Theology and Spirituality
Verlagsort	Sheffield
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-84553-418-2 / 1845534182
ISBN-13	978-1-84553-418-9 / 9781845534189
Zustand	Neuware