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Call 510.835.0655 Author: Matthew Fox ISBN: 978-1-57731-607-7 Pages: 368 Binding Information: Hardcover Size: 6 X 9 Availability: In stock. Hardback: $24.95 Paperback: $15.95
It is no secret that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world’s critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems.
To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. Popular religion forces the punitive imagery of fundamentalism on us, pushing most men away from their natural yearning for spirituality and toward intolerance and domination. Meanwhile, many men, particularly young men, are looking for images of healthy masculinity to emulate and finding nothing.
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Grandfatherly Heart to the Spiritual Warrior. He explores archetypes of sacred marriage, showing how partnership becomes the ultimate expression of healthy masculinity. By stirring our natural yearning for healthy spirituality, Fox argues, these timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to reinvent the world.
“Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America.” — Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work
“For the past thirty years, Matthew Fox has been blazing new trails in consciousness and theology – and often getting in trouble for it. Now he does it again with The Hidden Spirituality of Men, potentially launching a viable and consequential men's spirituality movement. His book could not come at a better time for our world, with its distorted, unsustainable, testosterone-frenzied perceptions of what it means to be a man. His prophetic vision and courageous message both expand how we think of the masculine and elevate it to the level of the sacred.” — Christian de la Huerta, author of Coming Out Spiritually
“Leonard Bernstein, a great fan of Matthew Fox, once said to me, ‘It will take another generation before a true men’s movement emerges.’ In The Hidden Spirituality of Men, Matt sounds the call and illuminates the path for every man to step into his spiritual destiny, giving birth to an authentic men’s movement of the highest order. Bravo.” —Aaron Stern, founder with Leonard Bernstein of the Academy for the Love of Learning, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Matthew fox, a one of a kind voice, a wild man of religiosity turns his loving heart toward emancipating modern men from an overculture that if left to it self would only use up men’s blood and bones. Fox holds a different vision of the masculine as creative, voluptuous and filled with spirit.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves
“In The Hidden Spirituality of Men Matthew Fox has written a book designed to make all of us, men and women, more mindful of the spirit-streams in which we live our journeys, whether consciously or not. It is a gutsy, courageous book, one that confronts the terrible isolation in which men live with archetypal images that once nurtured, guided, and connected our ancestors and that still course within the depths of each of us. If we are to redeem our souls from the numbing banalities of our culture, we have to access spiritual values that enable us to give our lives to something worthy once more.” — Dr. James Hollis, Jungian analyst and author of What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know. If you want to understand what is out of whack in our culture — from politics to personal life — and how to heal and transform it, you’ll rejoice in this book that combines the wisdom of the ages with the most forward-looking combination of feminist spirituality and contemporary psychological and philosophical reflections!” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and author of The Left Hand of God
“A wake-up call to shake us free from old stereotypes of masculinity, this book is good news — and essential reading for men and those living in a world with men. Matthew Fox, at his most enlivening and insightful, describes, arouses, and liberates archetypal forms of male spirituality so desperately needed in these leaden times. These forms for embodying the sacred strengthen the warrior and the guardian within me as well. I know no better medicine for the mounting violence in our streets and in our hearts.” — Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self
“Once again, Matthew Fox brings his spiritual and earthly wisdom to the critical issues of our age. Fox shows how the challenges of humanity — environment, conflict, and social justice — are linked to the spiritual crisis faced by Western men. He demonstrates that we can start repairing our relationship with the earth and its citizens by repairing our own relationship with the sacred. The Hidden Spirituality of Men is essential reading for men who dream of becoming more effective agents of change, contributors to family and community, and warriors in the struggle to make the world a better place. Fox shows that if we wish to repair a world that faces crises of militarism, injustice, and ecological collapse, we must start with the conflicts and potential within ourselves and work outward from spiritual strength.” — Rex Weyler, cofounder of Greenpeace International, author of The Jesus Sayings, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water
