https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to masculinity en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/19/hell-cell-popes-exorcist-reflects-growing-belief-cocksure-men-will-save-us-battle-good-v Although it was a financial success, The Pope’s Exorcist , featuring a virile Russell Crowe as real-life exorcist Gabrielle Amorth, was panned by most Catholic reviewers, including the International Association of Exorcists (IAE), which Amorth founded. Critics objected to the… Fri, 19 May 2023 12:46:29 EDT Eric Harrelson, Joseph Laycock 8ef5b2b0-ac5f-42d2-b1d1-a29183549a9c https://religiondispatches.org/2020/08/10/wrong-man-why-falwells-paying-his-indiscretion-trump-gets-pass When news broke this past Friday that a controversial Instagram photo would result in Jerry Falwell, Jr. taking an “indefinite leave of absence” as president of Liberty University, it was only the latest in a string of incidents with Falwell… Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:34:21 EDT Leslie Dorrough Smith 35b3af05-dc0b-455b-afbe-765a06d6c0a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/15/how-religion-shaped-american-jewish-masculinity What inspired you to write Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism ? There’s a story I tell near the beginning of the book: I was in the midst of researching and writing the book, and a group of leaders… Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:03:33 EST Sarah Imhoff 4c644329-aa46-4700-a188-80565c07e5c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/30/children-bellow-and-roth-new-book-short-fiction-takes-male-jewish-experience “I’m unbelievably bored writing about Judaism as a journalist,” author Gordon Haber said during a recent conversation with RD. When Haber compiled Uggs for Gaza And Other Stories, his debut short story collection, he didn’t set out to tackle the… Tue, 30 May 2017 03:35:13 EDT Stephanie Russell-Kraft d55c7e75-2a7c-41c4-b867-cbc8d029ff84 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/21/orlando-tragedy-and-tangled-history-jihad-and-homosexuality The first jihad of the modern era was not against the West, but against gay Muslims. Tue, 21 Jun 2016 01:54:51 EDT Ali Olomi 2c15bf2f-858a-4f1d-a043-489ff01b839c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/19/loneliness-men-fathers-day-reflection This year, Father’s Day comes just a week after the Orlando tragedy—seven days of mourning, of national self-searching, and of urgent effort to understand how the Orlando shooter became who he was. I believe I have seen that same toxic… Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:00:51 EDT Rita Nakashima-Brock be2074d6-9274-4c41-9842-6a164d0ba6ba https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/03/militias-trump-guns-and-isis-too-much-masculinity Masculinity made the news again. We see it in the standoff between a self-described militia and the Federal Government in Rose, Oregon. It is in the raging debate over gun policy and in the candidacy of Donald Trump, who is… Wed, 03 Feb 2016 01:55:48 EST Stewart M. Hoover, Curtis D. Coats 53653bb8-8999-430f-8fab-53518798515d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/28/muscular-christianity-not-blame-driscoll-response When I began attending Mars Hill Church in 2006, its main facility in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood was headquarters and clubhouse—a 20,000 square foot renovated hardware warehouse seating over a thousand where young guys loitered in the parking lot and rock… Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:57:22 EDT Jessica Johnson fba9c299-94b3-4267-bef7-6645e35f967c https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/25/blame-muscular-christianity-driscoll-fiasco If you even nominally follow the world of evangelical Christianity, you already know that superstar pastor Mark Driscoll has stepped down for an indefinite period of time from his pastoral role at Mars Hill Church, the megachurch in Seattle that… Mon, 25 Aug 2014 05:23:53 EDT Hollis Phelps 965ad190-8ba7-4710-aa5c-87354204842d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/27/conservative-christianitys-come-jesus-moment-wake-elliot-rodger-shootings In the wake of the tragic massacre at UCSB on Friday night in which Elliott Rodger murdered 6 people and injured 13 more before taking his own life, much has been written about Rodger’s motivations for the murders. In a… Tue, 27 May 2014 05:08:39 EDT Devin Kuhn-Choi 80851c07-f42e-4f04-86f3-a9b06ae29e46 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/17/masculinity-and-mass-violence-when-will-we-acknowledge-smoking-gendered-pronoun-hiding The recent spate of mass killers all sought to solve their problems with a certain expression of gun violence that maps easily onto the masculinist roots of Christianity and other religious traditions—particularly in more conservative expressions. Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:14:09 EST Elizabeth Drescher 9cdc85ee-a407-47f9-a89b-7ca9951354c5 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/15/manly-prayers-penn-state Besides the weighty matters of truth, justice and protection, Coach Brown prayed for something much less obviously connected to the alleged sexual abuse: a restoration of masculinity to the game of football. “There are a lot of little boys around the country, today, who are watching this game. And they’re trying to figure out what the definition of manhood is all about. Father, this is it right here. I pray that this game will be a training ground of what manhood looks like.” When I heard that prayer I couldn’t help but ask, why here and why now? What is it exactly about this scandal that relates to little boys trying to learn what manhood looks like? Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:41:43 EST Sean S. O'Neil 63f43769-8bb4-4b62-b9fc-9df6330fc553 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/09/08/can-romney-win-embracing-his-mormon-masculinity Mormon GOP candidates give the debate its most reasonable moments. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:04:16 EDT Joanna Brooks 07978ffa-ecb6-4bf6-b2e7-366669fee41e https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/10/garden-eden-dull-place-paradise-lust-author-explains A conversation with Brook Wilensky-Lanford, author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden. Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:14:43 EDT Nathan Schneider 8e47af37-c1a4-4f6c-a05b-439568918f6e https://religiondispatches.org/2010/05/25/how-mormonism-built-glenn-beck Some are familiar with Glenn Beck’s teary Mormon conversion story, but what many are not aware of is the extent to which Mormonism has given Beck key elements of his on-air personality and messaging—and how it may shape the future of American conservatism. Tue, 25 May 2010 09:56:08 EDT Joanna Brooks 6f7107ac-79ec-4408-8f62-fb4a58078cb7 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/18/super-bowl-sunday-american-holy-day Indignant responses to the Janet Jackson nipple slip and the somber post-9/11 halftime show reveal glimpses of the sanctity of this yearly ritual, but it’s also in the creation of icons, the reinforcement of rules, and Americans telling themselves stories about themselves. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:09:53 EDT Gary Laderman 10f1de33-b02f-4b21-95b8-9a612aba18d1