Männer Literaturlisten
Richard Rohr, Der wilde Mann. Geistliche Reden zur Männerbefreiung, Claudius Verlag München, 7. Auflage 1988
Wilfried Wieck, Männer lassen lieben. Die Sucht nach der Frau, Fischer Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1988
Wilfried Wieck, Wenn Männer lieben lernen, Kreuz Verlag Stuttgart, 1990
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Götter in jedem Mann. Besser verstehen, wie Männer leben und lieben, Sphinx Verlag Basel, 1991
Dennis Moore und Douglas Gilette, König, Krieger, Magier, Liebhaber. Die Stärken des Mannes, Kösel Verlag München, 1992
Robert Bly, Eisenhans. Ein Buch über Männer, Kindler Verlag München, 1993, Neuauflage: Rowohlt TB Verlag, 2005
Ton van der Kroon, Die Rückkehr des Löwen. Von Liebe, Lust und Herzenspower. Ein Buch für Männer, Bauer Verlag Freiburg im Breisgau, 2. Auflage, 1999
Dietrich Schwanitz, Männer. Eine Spezies wird besichtigt, Eichborn Verlag, April 2001
Steve Biddulph, australischer Familientherapeut und Männerforscher und -aktivist, Männer auf der Suche. Sieben Schritte zur Befreiung, Heyne Verlag, September 2003

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Zitate zum Thema Männer und Männerliteratur (engl.) / Men and Men's literature

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Zitate – Männerinitiation von Fr. Richard Rohr / Male spirituality / Initiation

The males of most cultures will ordinarily define themselves by external performance, self created ordeals, and ego affirming tasks – unless they are offered a very real inner world and larger outer world that is even more alive and challenging. […] Older cultures seemed to assume that unless the male is led on deliberate journeys of powerlessness, he will normally seek and abuse power. The only external power that you can trust is in men who have also found their real inner power. Power it seems is the key fascination in the male soul and in every male archetype. It does not go away by churchy preaching or cultural poverty. It just takes disguised and different forms and finally comes back to defeat most worthwhile projects or worse, keeps them from ever getting started. If the male does not experience his power and his possibilities, if he does not let others educate it and tame it, power needs/ego needs tend to control his whole agenda. It does not go away. Primal cultures understood this to an amazing degree, and they took steps to insure that it would not keep happening and subverting their community. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Made not Born: Men and Power, presented by Malespirituality.org, July 2003

Masculine spirituality is not just for men, although it is men who are most likely going to have to rediscover and exemplify it. Strangely, it is an approach that many women are more in touch with today than men. Women have been encouraged and even forced to work on their inner life more than men in our culture. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

In the Chinese view of the universe, it is the yang, or active masculine principle, that is always the necessary complement to yin, the passive feminine principle. For the Judaeo-Christian tradition it is half of the image of God: “God created humanity as a self-image, male and female God created them” (Genesis 1:27). Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

Conversion to what? Conversion to what we might call the no-me. By that I mean conversion to the other, the alien, the would-be enemy that we must learn to love. In other words, men must be converted to the feminine, women to the masculine. Maybe that is why God made sexual attraction so compelling. If we are converted to this non-self, everything changes. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

A masculine spirituality would emphasize action over theory, service to the human community over religious discussions, speaking the truth over social graces, and doing justice over looking nice. Without a complementary masculine, spirituality becomes overly feminine (which is really a false feminine!) and characterized by too much inwardness, preoccupation with relationships, a morass of unclarified feeling, and endless self-protectiveness. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

Such a man has life for others and knows it. He does not need to push, intimidate, or play the power games common to other men because he possesses his power with surety and calm self-confidence. He is not opinionated or arrogant, but he knows. He is not needy or bothered by status symbols because he is […] his identity is settled and secure – and within. He possesses his soul and does not give it lightly to corporations, armies, nation-states, or the acceptable collective thinking. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

Saints are people who are whole. They trust their masculine soul because they have met the Father. He (sic!) taught them about anger, passion, power and clarity. He told them to go all the way through and pay the price for it. He shared with them his own creative seed, his own decisive Word, his own illuminating Spirit. They are comfortable knowing and they are comfortable not knowing. They can care and not care without guilt. They can act without success because they have named their fear of failure. They do not need to affirm or deny, judge or ignore. But they are free to do all of them with impunity. The saints are invincible. They are men! Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

The feminine is more comfortable with the interior, the soul;
the masculine is more comfortable with the exterior world. Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality, September-October 1988

The Five Promises (essential tough truths) of Male Initiation are:
1. Life is Hard.
2. You Are Not Important.
3. Your Life Is Not About You.
4. You Are Not in Control.
5. You Are Going to Die.
Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Adam's Return. The Five Promises of Male Initiation, Table of Contents (five chapters), The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2004

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Zitate (engl.) von Frauen

Yes, men and boys receive privilege and status from patriarchy, but it is a poisoned privilege for which they pay a heavy price. If traditional, patriarchal socialization takes aim at girls' voices, it takes aim at boys' hearts – makes them lose the deepest, most sensitive and empathic parts of themselves. Men aren't even allowed to be depressed, which is why they engage so often in various forms of self-numbing, from sex to alcohol and drugs to gambling and workaholism. Patriarchy strikes a Faustian bargain with men. Jane Fonda, actress, political activist, Jane Fonda's Speech at the National Women's Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., 12. June 2003

Human males, like many other male primates, are instinctively motivated by a drive for status or dominance. The male social world is saturated with behaviors driven by status seeking. Men jostle with each other daily, if not hourly, to gain as much status as they can and to avoid losing the status they have. Judith L. Hand, evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist (ethologist), novelist, pioneer in the emerging field of peace ethology, author of Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace [2003], The Pivotal Catalyst for Change and Longterm Stability

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Zitate (engl.) von Männern

[The possibility of the 'wildman' is] the possibility that the deep, nourishing and spirituality radiant energy in the male lies not in the feminine side, but in the deep masculine. [...] Now that so many men are getting in touch with their feminine side, we're ready to start seeing the wildman and to put his powerful, dark energy to use. Robert Bly, poet

Men have been programmed by society not to be intimate.
What do men want from women? – Sex.
What do women want from men? – Security and Money.
What kind of relationship does that make? – Prostitution.
We [men] lie a lot. [...] We are gonna fake it. [...] Truthfully what we [men] want is the same that you [women] want. Men are women turned inside out. We are. Audio interview with Dr. Stan Dale (1929-2007) sex, love and intimacy expert, founder of Human Awareness Institute on Intimacy [i.e. "into me you see"], May 1993

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken

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Externe Weblinks

Über das Mannwerden: Irrwege, Umwege, Auswege, Lars Gossing, Diplomarbeit Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen Deutschland, Soziologie – Gender Studies / Geschlechterforschung, 128 Seiten, 605,4 KB, Note 1,0, Januar 2001
Archetypen. Der Liebhaber, Formen und Entwicklungen eines verdrängten Archetyps, Ralf Hartmann, Aruna-Tantra.de, 3. Juni 2004
Der Weg des wahren Mannes. Leitfaden für Beziehungen in Beziehungen, Beruf und Sexualität, David Deida, (Leseprobe) J.Kamphausen Verlag, September 2006
Was ist männlich Sechs ZEIT-Autoren beantworten die Frage?, ZEIT online, Josef Joffe, Herausgeber der ZEIT, 13. Juni 2006

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Externe Weblinks (engl.)

Diederik F. Janssen, Male Initiation: Imagining Ritual Necessity, presented by The Intimate Connection JMMS, Volume 1, Number 3, November 2007
Hanna Rosin, contributing editor, The End of Men, 'the Atlantic'', July-August 2010

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Externe Audiolinks (engl.)

Man alive!, kostenloses Webradio-Programm zu Männerthemen, Manaliveradio.com, Gastgeber: Michael Pisacane und Sally Bickford
Audio interview with Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality. Why Males Need Initiation, Beloved Son Series, uploaded by CAC, 10 minutes duration (excerpt), 2004
Video interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of The Broken American Male. And How to Fix Him [1/2008], location Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, 18. June 2008, YouTube film, posted 2. Juli 2008
- The Broken American Male, part 1 of 8, 9:51 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 2 of 8, 9:56 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 3 of 8, 9:58 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 4 of 8, 9:58 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 5 of 8, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 6 of 8, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 7 of 8, 9:37 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 8 of 8, 9:10 minutes duration

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Videolinks (engl.) – Heilung der Männer / Healing men

Google video presentation with Robert Bly, A Gathering of Men, presented by Public Affairs Television, Mystic Fire video, producer and interviewer Bill Moyers, 1990, 1:29:31 minutes duration, posted 2006
Video presentation with Hitaji Aziz, Healing Men, presented by Living Smart #309, Houston PBS, host Patricia Gras, Google video, 26:48 minutes duration, 7. June 2007
Video presentation with Robert Bly, Bill Moyers talks with Poet Robert Bly, presented by PBS' Bill Moyer's Journal, producer and interviewer Bill Moyers, 27:22 minutes duration, posted 31. August 2007

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Videolinks (engl.) – Status der modernen Männer / Status of modern men

Video interview with Harvey Mansfield, Political Theorist; Author; Professor, Harvard, What makes a man?, concept of manhood, presented by Big Think, 4:12 minutes duration, posted 19. February 2008
Video interview with Reihan Salam, writer, journalist, Schwarz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Proselytizing for Self-Respect. The Dislocated Male. Were the “Mad Men” Such Bad Men?, presented by Big Think, 32:36 minutes duration, posted 1. December 2009

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