Wednesday 6:00-8:30                                     Stephen B. Boyd
Wingate 306
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00
        Wingate 207
        Telephone: 759-5653

An examination of how masculine sex-role expectations and male experiences have both shaped religious ideas, symbols, rituals, institutions, and forms of spirituality and been shaped by them. Attention will be given to the ways in which race, class, and sexual orientation affect these dynamics. The primary focus for this course will be western Christianity.

Requirements:
There will be four written assignments:

1. a spiral-bound reading notebook which will be taken up at mid-term and at the end of
    the semester; (25%)
2. a 5 page paper due February 28; (20%)
3. a 3 page paper on the position taken on an issue affecting
        men or men's roles by your denomination or religious tradition of your choice due April 3;       
        (15%) and
4. a 15 page paper due December 15 (40%)

Required Books:

Kenneth Clatterbaugh, Contemporary Perspectives on Masculinity
Stephen Boyd, The Men We Long to Be (MWLB)
Boyd, Longwood, and Muesse, Redeeming Men (RM)

Class Schedule

January  17 Introduction

                         Problematizing Masculinities: Perspectives
             24 Conservative, Pro-Feminist, Men's Rights
                        Clatterbaugh, Chs. 2,3, and 4
             31 Mythopoetic, Gay, African-American, Socialist
                        Clatterbaugh, Chs 5,6, and 7
 
                        Men's Studies and Religion
February 7 Brod, "Making a Case for Men's Studies" (reserve);
                        RM, Introduction; MWLB, Intro.

                        Effects of Masculinities:
                                Women
            14 RM, Wiethaus, Mowrey, Heyward
            21 RM, Kirkley, Muesse, Fout
 
                                Men (Dominant Groups)
            28 MWLB, chs. 1-3; RM, Eilberg-Schwartz
 
                                Men (Non-Dominant Groups)
 March   6 RM, Brantley, Jocks, Brod
            13 Spring Break
            20 RM, Nonn, Munir, Farrakhan (xerox)

                      Constructive Proposals
                                Theological Resources
            27 MWLB, ch. 4; RM, Smith, Boyd

                    Myth and Ritual
April     3 RM, Moore-Gillette, Parsons, Mirsky

                    Spiritual Disciplines
            10 RM, Pollard; MWLB, chs. 5 and 6

                    Religion, Masculinity, and Society
            17 RM, Longwood, Clark; Promise Keepers (xerox)
            24 RM, Nelson, Conclusion; MWLB, Conclusion

May         1 Presentations