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Male Confessions

Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination

  • Hardback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.5 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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"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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  • Title

    Male Confessions

  • Author

    Bjoern Krondorfer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    December 2009

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804768993

  • ISBN-10

    0804768994

  • Eden Code

    2743756