Losing the Good Portion: Why Men Are Aliendated from Christianity
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158731505X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Historians of violence have examined the decline in violence in Europe and the civilizing role of the clergy, a role which further alienated men and led to violent anticlericalism Podles examines the presentation of Jesus’ masculinity in Scripture and images of Jesus’ masculinity in art, the role of thumos in spirituality, and the various movements that have helped keep men connected to the churches. Losing the Good Portion: Why Men Are Alienated from Christianity explores the causes and consequences of the almost millennium-old disparity between the participation of lay men and lay women in the churches of Western Christianity. Few books have explored in depth the lack of men in the churches. Men, according to anthropologists and psychologists, go through a difficult process to attain masculinity and therefore distance themselves from threats to that masculine identity, including Christianity. Podles considers both the anecdotal and statistical evidence for the lack of men: sermons, church rolls, censuses, and sociological analyses. Podles’ book The Church Impotent
About the AuthorLeon Podles is also the author of The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity and of Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. He has published articles in Touchstone, Crisis, America, The American Spectator, The Antioch Review, and other periodicals. . He is president of the Crossland Foundation and worked as a federal investigator for many years
He is president of the Crossland Foundation and worked as a federal investigator for many years. Leon Podles is also the author of The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity and of Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. He has published articles in Touchstone, Crisis, America, The American Spectator, The Antioch Review, and other periodicals.