Contested Masculinities

Robert Stegmann is educator, New Testament scholar, research fellow at Stellenbosch University and is a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies.

• Foreword AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Reading Bodies, Reading Scripture in a Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter 2: Male Bodiliness and Performance: Developing a Gender-Critical OpticChapter 3: Inscribing Relationships of Power: Developing a Postcolonial OpticChapter 4: Reading Bodies, Ancient and ContemporaryChapter 5: Interpretational Coordinates: Historical Markers for Reading 1 ThessaloniansChapter 6: A Gender-Critical, Postcolonial Reading of 1 ThessaloniansChapter 7: Masculinity, Biblical Texts and the Metaphors by which We LiveEpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

Rob Stegmann employs gender-critical, postcolonial-inclined and contextual-aware lenses as he deftly works toward plotting out a polysemous yet bodily expressed Pauline masculinity in 1 Thessalonians in its socio-historical setting, deliberately encountering also the academy-church interface in South Africa and beyond…besides enriching, words like academically and personally engaging, committed and also honest and inviting, probably best describe this book!