Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling: A Critique of Hypermasculinity in American Christianity

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dc.contributor.advisorForlini Burt, Noel
dc.contributor.authorMoraes, Joao
dc.contributor.departmentReligion.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolshonors collegeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-19T13:04:46Z
dc.date.available2020-05-19T13:04:46Z
dc.date.copyright2020
dc.date.issued2020-05-19
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes the presence of hypermasculine ideals in modern Protestant circles. Since masculinity has only recently become a subject of academic study, I explore the origins of expressions such as hypermasculinity and the related terms, toxic and hegemonic masculinity. I draw from existing scholarship to explain some of the causes and consequences of this behavior and to describe how this phenomenon has reached Protestant Christians in the United States, focusing on modern times with an analysis of John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart. My thesis shows that hypermasculinity is utterly incompatible with Christianity, therefore I invite churches to resist the phenomenon by constructing a model of masculinity analogous to the way of Jesus Christ.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/10836
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectChurch.en_US
dc.subjectChristianity.en_US
dc.subjectChristian ethics.en_US
dc.subjectMasculinity.en_US
dc.subjectHypermasculinity.en_US
dc.subjectToxic masculinity.en_US
dc.titleSoftly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling: A Critique of Hypermasculinity in American Christianityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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