Reviewed by Brendan Jamal Thornton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Depending on what you are looking for, the title of Jessica Johnson’s 2018 volume from Duke University Press may be a bit misleading: you need not be home alone or draw the curtains closed in order to crack the spine of this thoughtful text which is based on a decade of comprehensive ethnographic research
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Thornton, Brendan Jamal. 2016. Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
Reviewed by Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno). In 2016, I took an evening stroll through the small city of Baracoa, Cuba as the sun set against façades of brightly-painted, columned wooden homes. In a country internationally-renowned for its rich Afro-Cuban musical genres
Thornton, “Victims of Illicit Desire”
Thornton, Brendan Jamal. 2018. Victims of Illicit Desire: Pentecostal Men of God and the Specter of Sexual Temptation. Anthropological Quarterly 91(1). Abstract: For …
Dawley, “From Wrestling with Monsters to Wrestling with God”
Dawley, William. 2018. From Wrestling with Monsters to Wrestling with God: Masculinities, ‘Spirituality,’ and the Group-ization of Religious Life in …
Burchardt, “Saved from hegemonic masculinity?”
Burchardt, Marian. 2017. Saved from hegemonic masculinity? Charismatic Christianity and men’s responsibilization in South Africa. Current Sociology. Early online publication. …
Wignall, “From Swagger to Serious”
Wignall, Ross. 2016. From Swagger to Serious: Managing Young Masculinities between Faiths at a Young Men’s Christian Association Centre in …
van Klinken “Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship”
van Klinken, Adriaan. 2016. Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship: The Born-Again Male Subject as Key to Zambia’s National Redemption. Journal …
Wignall, “A man after god’s own heart”
Wignall, Ross. 2016. A man after god’s own heart’: charisma masculinity and leadership at a charismatic Church in Brighton and Hove, …
Eves, “Reforming Men”
Eves, Richard. 2016. Reforming men: Pentecostalism and masculinity in Papua New Guinea. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Early online publication. …
Pieterse, “Managing belief in a hostile world”
Pieterse, Jim. 2016. Managing belief in a hostile world: experiencing gifts of the Spirit at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church …