Table of Contents
Looking down the Table of Contents of each issue you will see that author names and page numbers are in green. Green text means a link to somewhere else, so the green author name will take you to the author’s page, and the green page numbers will take you to the article in question.
Once you have clicked on the required page numbers you have two reading choices: a pdf article, or html article. If you want to open, read and save the pdf article, look in the “Appearing In” box to your left and you will see that you have the opportunity to download a pdf of the individual article, or the entire issue. The html article is right there in front of you, and is even paginated in the same way as the pdf for easy citation. Happy reading!
Open Access
JMMS is an Open Access journal, which means it is available online to all readers, free of charge. JMMS is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
The benefits of Open Access to both scholarly and general readers are great. For further information refer to these two useful sources by John Willinsky:
The Nine Flavours of Open Access Scholarly Publishing (J Postgrad Med 2003;49:263-267. A paper-length case).
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006. A book-length case).
Copyright on all JMMS articles belongs to the author. Anyone wishing to reproduce content beyond fair use from JMMS articles should contact the author directly for their permission. Author’s email addresses can be found at the end of each article.
Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is published twice a year with provision for other special editions.
JMMS seeks to be as inclusive as possible in its interdisciplinary area of inquiry. Papers address the full spectrum of masculinities and sexualities, particularly those which are seldom heard. Similarly JMMS addresses not only monotheistic religions and spiritualities but also Eastern, indigenous, new religious movements and other spiritualities which resist categorization. JMMS papers address historical and contemporary phenomena as well as speculative essays about future spiritualities.
Review Process
Manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Executive or Guest Editor, who then passes suitable submissions to two reviewers with appropriate expertise. All reviews are “blind,” i.e., the identity of the author is withheld from the reviewers. Reviewers generally provide comments or feedback to the author via the Executive or Guest Editor. Manuscripts may be rejected, accepted outright, or accepted subject to revision. Reviews typically take 8-12 weeks.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Alongside our regular editions JMMS will publish various special editions focusing on a particular theme relevant to the area of men, masculinities and spirituality, particularly those aspects underrepresented elsewhere. Special editions could also take the form of a collection of papers in a language other than English. Special editions will contain 4-8 papers of 6000 - 8000 words.
Special editions will be edited by a guest editor who will be responsible for soliciting, developing and distributing papers for peer review. Anyone interested in being a guest editor for such an issue should contact JMMS with a proposal of no more than one page outlining the theme, ideally providing a few examples of paper titles and suggestions of who might write them.
JMMS accepts books and DVDs for review from publishers which are in line with the focus and scope of the journal, including those subjects which intersect with men, masculinities and spirituality in obvious ways such as gender, sexuality, health, and critiques of patriarchy through to more subtle ways such as environmentalism and the occult.
Publishers should send items to the Book Review Editor:
Björn Krondorfer
Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686 / USA
bhkrondorfersmcm [dot] edu
Please note that submission of material for review does not guarantee inclusion in the journal.
Current books available to interested reviewers include:
- Chris Barker, The Hearts of Men: Tales of Happiness and Despair, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007
- Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, EROS: A Journey of Multiple Loves, Harrington Park Press, 2007.
- Jutta Jacob, Heino Stoever (eds), Maenner im Rausch: Konstruktionen und Krisen von Maennlichkeiten im Kontext von Rausch und Sucht, Transcript, 2009.
- Ian McAdam, Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama, Pittsburh: Duquesne University Press, 2009.
- Paula Lupkin, Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- John Waldmeir, Cathedral of Bones: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature, Fordham UP, 2009.
- Ken Corbett, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities, Yale UP, 2009
- Nick Clements, The New Ages of Men: A Practical Guide for Modern Masculinity, Sound of the Heart, 2011
- David Shepard, Michele Harway (ed), Engaging Men in Couple's Therapy, Routledge, 2012
- Ayfer Yazgan, Morde Ohne Ehre: Der Ehrenmord in der modernenTurkei. Erklaerungsansaetze und Gegenstrategien. TRANSCRIPT. 2011
- Paul Ryan, Asking Angela Macnamara: An Intimate History of Irish Lives, Irish Academic Press, 2012
- Stefan Horlacher, ed., Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middles Ages to the Present, Palgrave McMillan, 2012
Book reviews should adhere to APA format as described in the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (5th Ed.). Book reviews are generally 800-1500 words in length, and do not use foot- or end notes. If you are reviewing a book sent to you by JMMS we ask that you complete the review within eight weeks. Please ensure your review contains the full title and publisher details, as well as page numbers. For example:
From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men’s Movement by Judith Newton. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, vi + 295 pp.
Following are some links to useful online resources that intersect with the themes of JMMS:
Crome (Critical Research On Men in Europe)
Fostering Caring Masculinities
The Gay & Lesbian Religious Archives Network
German Men’s Studies Task Group/Arbeitskreis Kritische Männerforschung
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
La Manzana: Revista Internacional de Estudios sobre Masculinidades
National Organization for Men Against Sexism
Research Unit on Men and Masculinities (University of Bradford)