a) Miscellaneous works

Anthropological Quarterly, Special Collection: New Directions in the Anthropology of Religion and Gender: Faith and Emergent Masculinities, Volume 91, Number 1, Winter 2018

Bottomley, John. (1994). Power and Love: Men Seeking Wholeness. Melbourne: East St Kilda Uniting Church Parish.

Boyd, Stephen, W. Longwood, and M. Muesse. (Eds.) (1996). Redeeming men: religion and masculinities. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press. Contents: Fear and power in the lives of men / Steve Smith —Masculin- ity 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 mas- culinity / 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 peo- ple 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 —Initia- tion 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

Bradstock, Andrew. (ed). (2000). Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture. St Martins Press

Chinen, Allan B. (1993). Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul. Jeremy P. Tarcher.

Clark, J. Michael and the Students in RS 220 / WS 221. (2001). Teaching Men’s Studies in Religion at an All-Women’s College. Journal of Men’s Studies, Volume 9 Number 2, Winter

Eilberg-Shwartz, Howard. (1994). God’s Phallus and Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. Boston: Beacon Press.

Engebretson, Kathleen. (2006). Identity, Masculinity and Spirituality: A Study of Australian Teenage Boys. Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 9, Number 1, February 2006, pp. 91-110.

Gelfer, Joseph. (2009). Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy. Equinox Publishing.

Goll, J. (2001). Impact of men’s initiation on self-actualization and spiritual maturity. Unpublished Senior Honors Thesis Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Gottner-Abendroth, Heide. (1995). The Goddess and Her Heroes. Stow, MA: Anthony Publishing Company.

Granach S. (2001). Ceremonial rites of passage for adolescent boys: Essential components for contemporary initiations. Unpublished Masters Thesis California Stare University-Long Beach.

Harris, Ian M. (1997). The Ten Tenets of Male Spirituality. Journal of Men’s Studies, 6(1), Fall, pp. 29-53.

Isacco, A., & Wade, J. C. (2019). Religion, Spirituality, and Masculinity: New Insights for Counselors. Routledge.

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 1(1), 2006;
Editorial: Joseph Gelfer, Editor’s Note (pp. 1-2).
Research Notes:
Yvonne Maria Werner, Manliness and Catholic Mission in the Nordic Countries (pp. 3-18) Anna Prestjan, Christian Social Reform Work as Christian Masculinization? A Swedish Example (pp. 19-34)
Articles: Roland Boer, Skin Gods: Circumcising the Built Male Body (pp. 35-44) Frank A. Salamone, Hausa Concepts of Masculinity and the ‘Yan Daudu (pp. 45-54).
David Shneer, Queer is the New Pink: How Queer Jews Moved to the Forefront of Jewish Culture (pp. 55-64) Juan M. Marin, A Jesuit Mystic’s Feminine Melancholia: Jean-Joseph Surin (1600-1665) (pp. 65-76).
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, The Bhagavadgita, Pistol, and the Lone Bhadralok: Individual Spirituality, Masculinity, and Politics in the Nationalist Writings of Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) (pp. 77-98).
Book Reviews:
Joseph Gelfer, Review of Bret Stephenson, From Boys to Men: Spiritual Rites of Passage in an Indulgent Age (pp. 99-100) James Bryant, Review of Shayne Lee, T. D. Jakes: America’s New Preacher (pp. 101-102) Wisam Mansour, Review of David M. Friedman, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis (pp. 103-104) Sophie Smith, Review of Lahoucine Ouzgane. (ed.), Islamic Masculinities (pp. 105-108) Katharina von Kellenbach, Review of Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Robert Schreiter, Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith and Just Love (pp. 109-111) Nathan Abrams, Review of Peter Lehman. (ed.), Pornography: Film and Culture (pp. 112-113).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 1(2), 2007;
Editorial: Joseph Gelfer.
Stefan Horlacher, From a Metaphysics of Presence to the Blessings ofAbsence: The Medial Construction of Masculine Identity in Thomas Hardy’s Novel Jude the Obscure (pp. 116-136).
Elizabeth Ruchti, The Performance of Normativity: Mormons and the Construction of an American Masculinity (pp. 137-154).
Lisa Tyler, “He Was Pretty Good in There Today”: Reviving the Macho Christ in Ernest Hemingway’s “Today is Friday” and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (pp. 155-169).
Brendan Smyth, To Love the Orientalist: Masculinity in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator (pp. 170-182).
Book Reviews:
Bjorn Krondorfer, Review of Kathryn M. Ringrose, The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (pp. 183-185)
Bjorn Krondorfer, Review of Donald Boisvert, Sanctity and Male Desire: A Gay Reading of Saints (pp. 186-188)
William G. Doty, Review of Richard Jeffrey Newman, The Silence of Men: Poems (pp. 189-190)
Craig This, Review of Scott Thumma & Edward R. Gray. (eds.), Gay Religion (pp. 191-193)
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Review of John Ibson, Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography (pp. 194-195)
Myron M. Beasley, Review of Charise L. Cheney, Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (pp. 196-198).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 1(3), 2007;
Editorial: Yasemin Besen, Young Men, Masculinities and Spirituality: An Introduction to a Special Issue of JMMS (pp. 199-200).
Dan Cassino, Changing the Subject: Abortion and Symbolic Masculinities Among Young Evangelicals (pp. 201-214).
Diederik F. Janssen, Male Initiation: Imagining Ritual Necessity (pp. 215-234).
Yong Wang, The Homosexual Subject: Coming-Out as a Political Act (pp. 235-249).
Yasemin Besen and Gilbert Zicklin, Young Men, Religion and Attitudes Towards Homosexuality (pp. 250-266).
Book Reviews:
Stephen R. Patnode, Review of Victor J. Seidler, Young Men and Masculinities: Global Cultures and Intimate Lives (pp. 267-268).
Andrew Singleton, Review of Gary T. Barker, Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion (pp. 269-270).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 1(3), 2007.
Editorial: Yasemin Besen, Young Men, Masculinities and Spirituality: An Introduction to a Special Issue of JMMS (pp. 199-200).
Dan Cassino, Changing the Subject: Abortion and Symbolic Masculinities Among Young Evangelicals (pp. 201-214).
Diederik F. Janssen, Male Initiation: Imagining Ritual Necessity (pp. 215-234).
Yong Wang, The Homosexual Subject: Coming-Out as a Political Act (pp. 235-249). Yasemin Besen and Gilbert Zicklin, Young Men, Religion and Attitudes Towards Homosexuality (pp. 250-266).
Book Reviews:
Stephen R. Patnode, Review of Victor J. Seidler, Young Men and Masculinities: Global Cultures and Intimate Lives (pp. 267-268) Andrew Singleton, Review of Gary T. Barker, Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion (pp. 269-270).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 2(1), 2007.
Editorial: Joseph Gelfer, Editor’s Note (pp. 1-2).
Lynn Huber, Sexually Explicit? Re-reading Revelation’s 144,000 Virgins as a Response to Roman Discourses (pp. 3-28) Chris Barker, Men, Buddhism and the Discontents of Western Modernity (pp. 29-46).
Book Reviews:
Ken Stone, Review of Dale B. Martin, Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation (pp. 47-51).
Silvia Mergenthal, Review of Stefan Horlacher, Masculinities. Konzeptionen von Männlichkeit im Werk von Thomas Hardy und D. H. Lawrence [Masculinities: Conceptions of Masculinity in the Works of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence] (pp. 52-53).
Mark Justad, Review of Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey, Every Man’s Battle: Every Man’s Guide to Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time and Every Young Man’s Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation (pp. 54-55).
Phillip A. Cantrell, Review of Marc Epprecht, Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa (pp. 56-57).
Bradford McCall, Review of Charles H. Lippy, Do Real Men Pray? Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America (pp. 58-59).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 2(2), 2008;
Björn Krondorfer, A Perpetrator’s Confession: Gender and Religion in Oswald Pohl’s Conversion Narrative (pp. 62-81).
Neil Pembroke, Narratives of Silence: Availability in a Spirituality of Fathering (pp. 82-94).
Peter Bray, Men, Loss and Spiritual Emergency: Shakespeare, the Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet (pp. 95-115).
Anton Karl Kozlovic, Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood Macho Man and the Theme of Masculinity within His Biblical (and Other) Cinema (pp. 116-138).
Book Reviews:
Robert J. Myles, Review of Philip Culbertson, Margaret Agee & Cabrini ‘Ofa Makasiale (Eds.), Penina Uliuli: Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health for Pacific Peoples (pp. 139-141).
Saheed Aderinto, Review of Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell (Eds.), African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (pp. 142-144).
Nathan Abrams, Review of Murat Aydemir, Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (pp. 145-146).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 3(2), 2009:
Editorial: Joseph Gelfer, Open Access Economics (pp. 97-99)
Yohai Hakak, Haredi Male Bodies in the Public Sphere: Negotiating with
the Religious Text and Secular Israeli Men (pp. 100-122)
Douglas Harrison, Southern Gospel Sissies: Evangelical Music, Queer
Spirituality, and the Plays of Del Shores (pp. 123-141)
Tyler Carrington, Instilling the “Manly” Faith: Protestant Masculinity
and the German Jünglingsvereine at the fin de siécle (pp. 142-154)
Book Reviews:
Björn Krondorfer, Review of Shaye J. D. Cohen, Why Aren’t Jewish Women
Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism (pp. 155-158)
Adriaan S. van Klinken, Review of Martin Fischer, Mannermächt und
Männerleid. Kritische theologische Männerforschung im Kontext
genderperspektivierter Theologie als Beitrag zu einer Gleichstellung der
Geschechter [Men’s Power and Men’s Pain: A Critical Theological
Investigation of Men in the Context of a Gender Perspective Theology as
a Contribution to Equality of the Sexes] (pp. 159-161)
Joanna R. Bartow, Review of Josué Ramirez, Against Machismo: Young Adult
Voices in Mexico City (pp. 162-165).

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. (2008).
Editorial: Tine Van Osselaer and Joseph Gelfer (pp. 1-3)
Alexander Maurits, The Exemplary Lives of Christian Heroes as an
Historical Construct (pp. 4-21).
Tine Van Osselaer, ‘Heroes of the Heart’: Ideal Men in the Sacred Heart Devotion (pp. 22-40).
Josephine Hoegaerts, Domestic Heroes: Saint Nicholas and the Catholic
Family Father in the Nineteenth Century (pp. 41-63).
Curtis Coats, God, Man, Then … Wait, How Does That Go? (pp. 64-79).
Book Reviews:
Philip Culbertson, Review of Chris Brickell, Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (pp. 80-82).
Klaus-Peter Adam, Review of Ken Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (pp. 83-85).
Marc Beard, Review of Colleen M. Conway, Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco Roman Masculinity (pp. 86-87).
Shane McCorristine, Review of Malcolm Gaskill, Witchfinders: A
Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (pp. 88-90).
J. Shola Omotola, Review of Deborah Orr, Dianna Taylor, Eileen Kahl,
Kathleen Earle, Christa Rainwater and Linda Lopez McAlister (Eds),
Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference and Agency (pp. 91-93).
Joseph Gelfer, Review of Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men:
Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine (pp. 94-96).

Journal of Men’s Studies. (1998). Special Issue: Fathering, Faith, and Spirituality. 7(1), Fall. Includes;
Dollahite, David C. / Introduction to Special Issue.
Furrow, James L. / The Ideal Father: Religious Narratives and the Role of Fatherhood.
Palkovitz, Rob and Palm, Glen F. / Fatherhood and Faith in Formation: The Development Effects of Fathering on Religiosity and Values.
Latshaw, Jason S. / The Centrality of Faith in Fathers’ Role Construction: The Faithful Father and the Axis Mundi Paradigm.
Dollahite, David C., Marks, Loren D. and Olsen, Michael M. / Faithful Fathering in Trying Times: Religious Beliefs and Practices in Fathering Children With Special Needs.
Horn, Wade, Swenson, Don, Femiano, Sam and Longwood, Merle / Reactions Papers.
Christiansen, Shawn L. and Palkovitz, Rob / Exploring Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of Development: Generativity and its Relationship to Paternal Identity, Intimacy, and Involvement in Childcare.
Dollahite, David C. and Hawkins, Alan J. / A Conceptual Ethic of Generative Fathering.

Jurkovic, Dubravko, and Gordon A. Walker (2006). Examining Masculine Gender Role Conflict and Stress in Relation to Religious Orientation and Spiritual Well-Being in Australian Men. Journal of Men’s Studies, 14(1): 27-46.

Klein, Kenny. (1993). The Flowering Rod: Men, Sex and Spirituality. Oakland Park, IL: Delphi Press.

Krondorfer, B. & Culbertson, Phil (2005). Men’s studies in religion. In Lindsay Jones (Ed.-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. Macmillan, Vol. 9, pp. 5861-6.

Krondorfer, Bjorn. (ed). (1992). Body and Bible: Interpreting and Experiencing Biblical Narratives. Philadelphia: Trinity.

Krondorger, Bjorn. (ed). (1996). Men’s Bodies, Men’s Gods: Male Identities in a (Post) Christian Culture. New York: New York University Press.

Mahalik, James R., and Hugh D. Lagan. (2001). Examining Masculine Gender Role Conflict and Stress in Relation to Religious Orientation and Spiritual Well-Being. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 2(1), 24-33.

Rodriguez, Eric M., and Suzanne C. Ouellette. (2000). Religion and Masculinity in Latino Gay Lives. In Nardi, Peter M. (ed.). Gay Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications (Research on Men and Masculinities Series).

Soucy, Alexander. (1999). Masculinities and Buddhist Symbolism in Vietnam. In Playing The Man: New Approaches to Masculinity. Eds. Katherine Biber, Tom Sear, and Dave Trudinger. Sydney: Pluto Press.

Straton, Jack. (1992-93 Where are the Ethics in Men’s Spirituality?. XY: Men, Sex, Politics, 2(4), Summer

Thompson Jr, Edward H., and Kathryn R. Remmes. (2002). Does Masculinity Thwart Being Religious? An Examination of Older Men’s Religiousness. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 521-532, September.

Van Leeuwen, Mary Steward. (1993). After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co..

Veer, Peter van der. (2001). Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses. pp. 83-105; IN:; Imperial Encounters: Religion and modernity in India and Britain; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Ward, A. Z., & Cook, S. W. (2011). The complex associations between conforming to masculine norms and religiousness in men. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 12(1), 42.

Zepp, D. A. (2015). Intersection of masculinity and faith in college men’s identity: A grounded theory of spiritual crossroads. Boston College,

Zepp, D. A. (2016). College Men at the Intersection of Masculinity and Spirituality: A Literature Review and Synthesis. Religion & Education, 43(2), 178-190.