Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination
Björn Krondorfer
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 ... Read more
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Harry Brod
University of Northern Iowa
"This is a fascinating but theoretically dense book at the intersection of narrative, gender, and religious studies. It is a ... Read more