عنوان

What Men Want? Initial Thoughts on the Male Goddess Movement

شماره

LA124744

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

What Men Want? Initial Thoughts on the Male Goddess Movement

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

David Green

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article examines the sociological dynamics of a number of contemporary Pagan men who venerate goddesses. Rejecting both mythopoetic and normative Western social constructions of masculinity, the Male Goddess Movement (MGM) equates social problems with traits usually associated with masculinity such as aggression and competitiveness. The MGM is built around the interiorization of the female antitype as a form of liberation from these dogmas of masculinity. In this respect ritual practice centred on Goddesses becomes of central importance to the performance of non-essentialized and enchanted forms of masculinity. This interiorization and ritualization has importance for both theory and practice. In sociological terms the MGM marks a new form of gendered religious practice which deliberately resists epistemological labels such as 'modern' or 'postmodern'. Within Contemporary Paganisms it marks a new second wave of masculinist consciousness which, contrary to mythopoetic constructions of masculinity, seeks to dismantle essentialist forms of gender difference. This article examines the sociological dynamics of a number of contemporary Pagan men who venerate goddesses. Rejecting both mythopoetic and normative Western social constructions of masculinity, the Male Goddess Movement (MGM) equates social problems with traits usually associated with masculinity such as aggression and competitiveness. The MGM is built around the interiorization of the female antitype as a form of liberation from these dogmas of masculinity. In this respect ritual practice centred on Goddesses becomes of central importance to the performance of non-essentialized and enchanted forms of masculinity. This interiorization and ritualization has importance for both theory and practice. In sociological terms the MGM marks a new form of gendered religious practice which deliberately resists epistemological labels such as 'modern' or 'postmodern'. Within Contemporary Paganisms it marks a new second wave of masculinist consciousness which, contrary to mythopoetic constructions of masculinity, seeks to dismantle essentialist forms of gender difference.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

305-327

عنوان

Religion and Gender

شماره جلد

2/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1878-5417

اصطلاح موضوعی

antitype

اصطلاح موضوعی

essentialism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Goddess

اصطلاح موضوعی

masculinity

اصطلاح موضوعی

mythopoesis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Paganisms

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

David Green

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18785417-00202007

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y