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Author: Yvonne Maria Werner Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9058678733 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminization of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society? This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity. Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds. Some men engaged in social and missionary work, or strove to harness the masculine combative spirit to Christian ends, while others were eager to show the male character of Christian virtues. This book not only illustrates the importance of religion for the understanding of gender construction, but also the need to take into consideration confessional and institutional aspects of religious identity.
Author: Yvonne Maria Werner Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9058678733 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminization of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society? This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity. Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds. Some men engaged in social and missionary work, or strove to harness the masculine combative spirit to Christian ends, while others were eager to show the male character of Christian virtues. This book not only illustrates the importance of religion for the understanding of gender construction, but also the need to take into consideration confessional and institutional aspects of religious identity.
Author: Clifford Putney Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674042409 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
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Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.
Author: J. H. Robinson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330144305 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 267
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Excerpt from The Religion of Manhood: Or, the Age of Thought To avow one's sentiments, at proper times, and under certain circumstances, I believe is both manly and right. When our views flow onward with the popular current it requires no moral courage to express and defend them; but when we have arrived at conclusions entirely opposed to prevailing dogmas, not a little firmness and self-reliance is necessary to enable us to unfurl the independent flag, and drop into the ranks of the minority. It will be acknowledged, I presume, that every person must believe something. Each individual must have certain notions of a creative Deity, and some kind of a theory of divine government. In this country, it is generally conceded that every man has a perfect right to believe just what he can, rationally. If he is disposed to take the Alcoran of Mahomet for his moral guide, I suppose the government of this republic will not interfere in the premises, so long as he leads a sober and orderly life. Those who embrace the Jewish and Christian testaments, as authority in all matters pertaining to religion, have, also, the privilege of doing so. But one thing is obvious, and completely apparent to every candid mind, - any person who really believes a given proposition, must do so from evidence. Belief and unbelief are things of necessity, although one may profess to receive as true a proposition of which he knows literally nothing; yet the difference between profession and reality is just the difference between truth and falsehood. The flower grows because conditions favor its development; it has a fertile soil, gentle dews, genial rains, pure air, and bright sunshine. So a man believes, because conditions compel him to believe. This I conceive to be a sound and incontrovertible position, but one that is not understood by prevailing organizations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Stephen Blake Boyd Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 9780664255442 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 336
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Contributors to this book--historians, biblical specialists, theologians, ethicists, and scholars of comparative religions--examine the relationship between religious tradition and manhood. The essays cover a broad range of topics--from the dynamics of power in shaping masculine identity, to the role religion plays in shaping masculine identity, to the experience of myth, ritual, spiritual discipline, and community in the lives of men.
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