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• Title: Both Remedy and Poison: Religious Men and the Future of Peace.
• Author : Masculinities and Spirituality Journal of Men
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 183 KB

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In one of Plato's dialogues between Phaedrus and Socrates, we are faced with the paradox of the "pharmakon." The pharmakon is alternatively or simultaneously beneficent and maleficent; it is both remedy and poison; at once fascinating and abhorrent. I find Plato's pharmakon a useful tool in understanding how men and masculinities function in all religions, both in their histories and futures. Without a doubt, in the name of numerous divinities, men have wrought great turmoil on the world: on women, children, less powerful men, animals, and the earth on which we live. We tend to think in these allegedly post-feminist times that many of the ills men have performed in times past are in some way solved, but they are not. Patriarchy and its damaging effects are alive and well, even among those people who speak about masculinity in spiritual terms. I want to plot a brief course of these masculine spiritualities in recent times: via the mythopoetic men's movement, the Christian men's movement, and how what might be described as an "alternative spirituality" men's movement expresses itself today. These offer us an insight into the poison of the pharmakon. I will then conclude with a different vision for men and spirituality: the remedy. When most people think of the men's movement, the image they conjure in their minds is usually one of the mythopoetic men's movement. It is an image of partially clothed, bearded men, smeared with mud in the woods. It is an image of men getting in touch with their feelings, weeping in the company of brothers or releasing a primal scream. It is an image of storytelling, sweat lodges, drumming and talking sticks. For many, the mythopoetic movement is synonymous with Robert Bly's Iron John, which recreates a Grimm Brothers' tale about a wild, hairy man, "Iron John" who becomes a mentor to a young boy. The experiences shared by Iron John and the boy are intended to reflect the stages of masculine development.

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