Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism : A Critical Reader

, by Krondorfer, Bjorn

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ISBN: 9780334041917 | 0334041910
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Copyright: 7/31/2009

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Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism is the first comprehensive collection that maps out the field of Critical Men's Studies in Religion.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
In the Beginning	p. 1
The Final Cause: The Cause of Causes	p. 3
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality	p. 9
The Battle for Chastity	p. 22
New Ways in Our Sexual Spirituality	p. 34
A New Field Takes Shape	p. 49
Trajectories in Men's Studies in Religion: Theories, Methodologies, and Issues	p. 51
A Gay Man's Wish List for the Future of Men's Studies in Religion	p. 56
Homosexuality, Queer Theory, and Christian Theology	p. 63
Theorizing and Theologizing Alternative Masculinities	p. 77
Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and Jewish Masculinity	p. 79
Bodies: The Displaced Body of Jesus Christ	p. 96
Designing Men: Reading the Male Body as Text	p. 113
Constructing Common Ground: Mapping the Contributions of Gay People to Christian Theology	p. 125
Transgression as a Metaphor for Queer Theologies	p. 137
True Confessions and Weird Obsessions: Autobiographical Interventions in Literary and Biblical Studies	p. 146
Biblical Musings	p. 163
Unmanning Israel	p. 165
Sex and the Single Savior	p. 184
Biblical Interpretation as a Technology of the Self: Gay Men and the Ethics of Reading	p. 201
Fathers and Sons: Fragments from an Autobiographical Midrash on John's Gospel	p. 216
Masculine Ideals in the Jewish and Christian Traditions	p. 235
Soldiers of Christ: Christian Masculinity and Militarism in Late Antiquity	p. 237
'Try to be a Man': The Rabbinic Construction of Masculinity	p. 259
'Begotten, Not Made': Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity	p. 277
The Discovery of Sodomy	p. 290
Christian Manliness Unmanned: Masculinity and Religion in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Western Society	p. 306
Miles to Go: Promise Keepers in Historical and Cultural Context	p. 319
Spirituality and the Intimate Body	p. 333
The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in the Early Christian Church	p. 336
Circumcision and the Erection of Patriarchy	p. 355
From Masturbation to Homosexuality: A Case Study of Displaced Moral Disapproval	p. 364
Receptivity and Revelation: A Spirituality of Gay Male Sex	p. 381
The Sacrality of Male Beauty and Homosex	p. 393
Sanctity and Male Desire: Sebastian and Tarcisius	p. 408
Gender, Justice, and Community	p. 419
Who's Afraid of Gay Theology? Men's Studies, Gay Scholars, and Heterosexual Silence	p. 421
Critical Theory, Deconstruction, and Liberation	p. 437
Beyond Machismo: A Cuban Case Study	p. 444
A Gap in the Closet: Gay Theology in Latin American Context	p. 460
The Cross and Male Violence	p. 472
List of Contributors	p. 481
Acknowledgments of Sources	p. 486
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