1st Edition
Numen, Old Men Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy
By Joseph Gelfer
Copyright 2009
233 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Joseph Gelfer is Adjunct Research Associate at the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia.
