Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination

by Björn Krondorfer

Book Overview

Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings--by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian--that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804769001
• ISBN13: 9780804769006
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"