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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;
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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.
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