Masculinities

Editorial

Part One: Masculinity Studies: Current Questions, New Directions

Men, Masculinity, God: Can Social Science Help with 

the Theological Problem?

RAEWYN CONNELL 13

A Theology for Reimagining Masculinities

HERBERT ANDERSON 25

Part Two: Masculinity between Religion, Politics and Culture

Masculinity Undone: Reading Mark 14.51-52 from El Otro Lado

MANUEL VILLALOBOS MENDOZA 39

Masculinities, Religion, and Sexualities

EZRA CHITANDO 51

Masculinity, Race, Fatherhood

VINCENT LLOYD 64

Orthodox Ideology and Masculinity in Putin's Russia

NICHOLAS DENYSENKO 74

Transcending Gender: Colonialism, Gandhi and Religion

SHYAM PAKHARE 85

Masculinity in the Guaran Religious Tradition

ANGLICA OTAZ 96

Part Three: Masculinities and/in the Catholic Church

Essentially Different Men? Varieties of Clerical Masculinity

THERESIA HEIMERL 109

Masculinity and Sexual Abuse in the Church

JULIE HANLON RUBIO 118

Clerical Masculinities and the Paradigm of Relationality

LEONARDO BOFF 128

Part Four: Theological Forum

The Pan-Amazon Synod

FILIPE MAIA 137

The Vatican, China, and the Future of the Chinese Catholic Church

BENOT VERMANDER SJ

Contributors 147