Toxic Masculinity and the Quest for Ecclesial Legitimation
This essay analyzes masculinity as an ecclesial strategy for maintaining cultural and political power. It begins by examining the masculine theology promoted by the German Christian Movement that gave religious justification for Nazism's violence against those who did not conform to their mascu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2019]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 319-338 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBB German language area KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | This essay analyzes masculinity as an ecclesial strategy for maintaining cultural and political power. It begins by examining the masculine theology promoted by the German Christian Movement that gave religious justification for Nazism's violence against those who did not conform to their masculine norms. Drawing on conceptions of legitimation crisis' and masculinities studies, it argues that the masculine theology of the German Christians, predicated on a desire for social and political relevancy, shares a similar logic with current American evangelical masculinity. In conclusion, it turns to Dietrich Bonhoeffer for resources of ecclesial resistance to these masculine temptations for cultural relevancy and political power. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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