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 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. The academic interests of the editorial board reflect these diverse positions.

JMMS content is available freely on an open access basis as well as being aggregated by EBSCO, Gale-Cengage and Informit. JMMS content is also indexed by Scopus.

The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality is now also in print and available from Gorgias Press.

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Editorial:
Joseph Gelfer, Independent Open Access Book Publishing 101 (pp. 1-3)

Articles:
Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Holiness Sex: Conservative Christian Sex Practices as Acts of Sanctification (pp. 4-19)

Samuel Tongue, Scripted Bodies: Reading the Spectacle of Jacob Wrestling the Angel (pp. 20-37)

Reviews:

Alison Jasper, Review of Björn Krondorfer, Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (pp. 38-40)

Ilya Merlin, Review of Kent Brintnall, Ecce Homo: The-Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure (pp. 41-44)

Joanne Ella Parsons, Review of Richard Stott, Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in 19th Century America (pp. 45-46)

Joseph Gelfer, Review of Erik Sidenvall, The Making of Manhood Among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c.1890–c.1914 and Yvonne Maria Werner, Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (pp. 47-49)

Brett Krutzsch, Review of Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Between a Man and a Woman? Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage (pp. 50-52)

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