Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American ChristianityUniversity of California Press, 4 באוק׳ 2004 - 337 עמודים "Fat People Don't Go to Heaven!" screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation's largest Christian diet corporation and the subject of extensive press coverage from Larry King Live to the New Yorker. In the United States today, hundreds of thousands of people are making diet a religious duty by enrolling in Christian diet programs and reading Christian diet literature like What Would Jesus Eat? and Fit for God. Written with style and wit, far ranging in its implications, and rich with the stories of real people, Born Again Bodies launches a provocative yet sensitive investigation into Christian fitness and diet culture. Looking closely at both the religious roots of this movement and its present-day incarnations, R. Marie Griffith vividly analyzes Christianity's intricate role in America's obsession with the body, diet, and fitness. As she traces the underpinning of modern-day beauty and slimness ideals—as well as the bigotry against people who are overweight—Griffith links seemingly disparate groups in American history including seventeenth-century New England Puritans, Progressive Era New Thought adherents, and late-twentieth-century evangelical diet preachers. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 69
עמוד iv
... Divine, and the Feast of Material Pleasures,” Religion and American Culture 11, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 119–53. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967– Born again bodies : flesh and spirit ...
... Divine, and the Feast of Material Pleasures,” Religion and American Culture 11, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 119–53. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967– Born again bodies : flesh and spirit ...
עמוד viii
... Divine Lover Above The Power of Perfection: Purified Bodies and Racialized Worlds Epilogue: Bodies in Crisis? 239 Notes 251 Primary Source Bibliography 291 Index 303 Illustrations 1. " Fat People Don't Go To Heaven !
... Divine Lover Above The Power of Perfection: Purified Bodies and Racialized Worlds Epilogue: Bodies in Crisis? 239 Notes 251 Primary Source Bibliography 291 Index 303 Illustrations 1. " Fat People Don't Go To Heaven !
עמוד 1
... divine command . The eternal costs of overeating were markedly severe : " Grace , " in Shamblin's words , " does not go down into the pigpen . ” 1 Though forecasts for the future of Shamblin's enterprise remain mixed , the culture of ...
... divine command . The eternal costs of overeating were markedly severe : " Grace , " in Shamblin's words , " does not go down into the pigpen . ” 1 Though forecasts for the future of Shamblin's enterprise remain mixed , the culture of ...
עמוד 2
... divine disfavor. The body is a hazard to the soul, able to demolish the hardest won spiritual gains merely through ingesting the wrong material. While women have been major pur- veyors as well as consumers of this far-reaching genre ...
... divine disfavor. The body is a hazard to the soul, able to demolish the hardest won spiritual gains merely through ingesting the wrong material. While women have been major pur- veyors as well as consumers of this far-reaching genre ...
עמוד 5
... divine powers controlling the world. Fitness has taken different forms over the course of American history, and the contours of divine-human intimacy have been equally vari- able; but one link among such seemingly disparate American ...
... divine powers controlling the world. Fitness has taken different forms over the course of American history, and the contours of divine-human intimacy have been equally vari- able; but one link among such seemingly disparate American ...
תוכן
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NEW THOUGHT PHYSIQUES | 69 |
DIVERGENT PATHS OF NEW THOUGHT PERFECTIONISM | 110 |
SHAPING DEVOTIONAL FITNESS CULTURE | 160 |
DENIAL INDULGENCE AND EXCLUSION IN CHRISTIAN DIET CULTURE | 206 |
Bodies in Crisis? | 239 |
Notes | 251 |
Primary Source Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 303 |
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