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Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination

By Bjorn Krondorfer

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0804768994, 9780804768993
LCC
PN56.C67 K76 2010
Open Library ID
OL23697219M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1478384 bytes)
Pages
312\314
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.

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