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Re: Masculine spirituality book

http://unity1.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:06:23 GMT

ha ha - what an interesting book or was it review - I agree totally - I have read a bit of DD and it always made me feel uncomfortable after a while and I couldn't put my finger on it at first - and Wilbur - have never wanted to read anything of his - trust my intuition enough

interesting there is NO feminine face of divinity in any real way in any worlds religions - by that I mean no MOTHER To the father - so in terms of what feminine divinity would look like we have to go outside of that framework - outside of the characteristics subscribed to us women by men who defined them

conversely - since all the divine icons of religions in the world are male then trying to find a masculine sense of divinity that is NOT tainted with such patriarchal dogma may be challenging

thus - perhaps its about redefining divinity !!

Interestingly I didn't know I was going to say that until popped out - but there it is and what an interesting thought it is - redefine divinity ?????

hmmmmmmmmm !

Re: Masculine spirituality book

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:55:54 GMT

Anyone interested can read an excerpt over here:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/masculine_spiritualities_and_problem_patriarchy

Masculine spirituality book

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:19:51 GMT

Hi folks,

I thought you might be interested in my new book, Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (London: Equinox Publishers, 2009): http://tinyurl.com/desl9s

Since the early 1990s there have been various waves of interest in what
is often described as “masculine spirituality”. While diverse, a
commonality among these interests has been a concern that spirituality
has become too feminine, and that men’s experiences of the spiritual
are being marginalized. Masculine spirituality is therefore about
promoting what it perceives to be authentic masculine characteristics
within a spiritual context. By examining the nature of these
characteristics, Numen, Old Men argues that masculine spirituality is
little more than a thinly veiled patriarchal spirituality. The
mythopoetic, evangelical, and to a lesser extent Catholic men’s
movements all promote a heteropatriarchal spirituality by appealing to
neo-Jungian archetypes of a combative and oppressive nature, or
understanding men’s role as biblically ordained leader of the family.
Numen, Old Men then examines Ken Wilber’s integral spirituality which
aims to honour and transcend both the masculine and feminine, but which
privileges the former to the extent where it becomes another masculine
spirituality, with all its inherent patriarchal problems. Gay
spirituality is then offered as a form of masculine spirituality which
to a large degree resists patriarchal tendencies, suggesting a queering
of spirituality could be useful for all men, both gay and straight.