Male confessions
Subtitle: intimate revelations and the religious imagination
By: Björn Krondorfer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780804768993; 9780804769006
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: male confessions; title: Interlude: on mirrors; title: The confines of male confessions: on ancient vainglory and the postmodern gaze; title: Interlude: on testimony; title: Non-absent bodies and moral agency: confessions of an African bishop and a Jewish ghetto policeman; title: A perpetrator and his hagiographer: Oswald Pohl's confession; title: Interlude: on tears; title: Sons of tears: displacing the intimate (female) other; title: Not from my lips: from annihilation to nation building; title: On spirit and sperm: eroticizing God, sanctifying the body; title: Outlook: the power to name oneself into being.