In a church and a world riven with scandals of abuse and violence, often committed by men, there is an urgent need to delve deeper into the topics of the masculinities and trauma that define them. Both critical theologies of masculinities and trauma theologies have a shared aim: to reveal that which is hidden, to name and bring to light those things that are so often concealed. This collection seeks to uncover an intersection between the two, showing how masculinities and trauma intersect and influence each other in research, stories and experiences of church and theology.
Spanning colonialism and ecology, through eucharistic theology and models of ministry, For Nothing is Hidden draws together voices from a variety of disciplines and experiences to offer research and reflections, with chapters from Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross, Andrew Graystone, Carlton Turner and Isabelle Hamley, plus a foreword from the Bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley. If the Church begins to take seriously the ways in which masculinities are produced and shaped, and how trauma can be experienced and understood, then there is an opportunity to offer a helpful contribution to the Church’s contemporary conversations concerning abuse, safeguarding and violence, with specific attention to gender.
For Nothing is Hidden is the second book in the SCM Press Studies in Trauma Theology series.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Studies in Trauma Theology series
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
Helen-Ann Hartley
Part One: Introduction and Approach
1. Introduction: Paying Attention to Masculinities and Trauma
Will Rose-Moore
To Be a Man
Jay Hulme
2. Moving From Feminist Trauma Theologies to Masculinities
Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross and Will Rose-Moore
Human Kind
Aysha Taha
Part Two: The Abuse and Traumatisation of Men and Masculinities
3. ‘I am your father in God’: Narratives of Fatherhood in Conservative Evangelical Mechanisms of Coercive Control
Andrew Graystone
Ecclesiam
Jarel Robinson-Brown
4. But how could you do such a thing – and enjoy it? Queering masculinities in a traumatising church
Charlie Bączyk-Bell
5. Going Under the Yoke: Punitive Stripping and Disgraced Masculinity
David Tombs
Part Three: Masculinities and Trauma Through the Lens of Scripture
6. ‘Bring out the men’: repressed trauma and the threat to masculinity in Genesis 19 and Judges 19
Isabelle Hamley
7. Hurt People Hurting People: Ezekiel, Masculinities and Perpetrator Trauma
Alexiana Fry
The Mark of Cain
Georgia Day
8. Top Boy: Honour, Shame and Violence in the Biblical Manosphere
Andrew Boakye
Part Four: How Masculinities and Trauma are Racialised
9. Broken Masculinity: Deconstructing the Hegemon Through Race and Disability
Kendrick A. Kemp and Benjamin R. Schweitzer
10. Traumatising Whiteness: A Gethsemanian Re-Imagining of White Masculinity
Tim Judson
Akeldama
Georgia Day
11. On Colonial Trauma and White Men’s Christian Mission: Is There an Alternative?
Carlton Turner
Colonial Amnesia
Brandon Fletcher-James
12. Mission, Silence and Nationalism: A Case study from Sri Lanka
Anupama Ranawana
Part Five: Witnessing and Responding to Masculinities and Trauma
13. Trauma and the ecotheological problems of the ‘Manthropocene’
Melissa Dickinson and Timothy A. Middleton
I am suspicious of people who don’t take Beauty seriously.
Tyrone Davis, Jr.
14. Thinking Gender through Eucharistic Complicity: A Trans Feminist Account of Masculinity and Trauma
Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones
Broken Bodies Breaking Bodies
Will Rose-Moore
15. Called to Vulnerability: Undoing, Abiding and Remaining as a Minister
Ian Henderson
A Prayer at the Edge of Undoing
Ian Henderson
16. Trauma, de/composing masculinities and ensoiled christologies (or, how men might face and follow their shit)
Al Barrett and Simon Sutcliffe
Afterword
Pamela R. Lightsey
About the Author :
Will Rose-Moore is a priest and theologian. He is currently serving as Assistant Curate at St John the Baptist, Loughton in the Diocese of Chelmsford and studying for a PhD in Theology with Westcott House in the Cambridge Theological Federation. Will is the author of Boys Will Be Boys, and Other Myths (SCM Press, 2022).
Review :
For Nothing Is Hidden is a compelling and impressively cohesive volume examining the intersection of masculinities, trauma, and Christianity. Seeking to build on trauma theology, it exposes the infrastructure of patriarchal masculinity at the root of much religious harm. Rose-Moore's clear editorial vision shines through, as each essay delivers on the aim to provide “more nuance and subtleties in the ways we speak about men, masculinities, patriarchy, trauma, and violence.” (12) Guiding us through an astounding range of literatures, theoretical and theological, the scholars and poets introduce us to new angles on the problem of configurations of masculinity and theological practices that can be imagined otherwise. This volume will have wide appeal behind its focus on trauma and will be a welcome addition to courses focused on gender, violence, and Christian traditions.
For Nothing Is Hidden is a compelling and impressively cohesive volume examining the intersection of masculinities, trauma, and Christianity. Seeking to build on trauma theology, it exposes the infrastructure of patriarchal masculinity at the root of much religious harm. This volume will have wide appeal behind its focus on trauma and will be a welcome addition to courses focused on gender, violence, and Christian traditions.
