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 35
עמוד 9
... become ever more mindful of the role played by these classification schemes in American fitness culture, particularly the ways in which that culture aids in bolstering hierarchies of ethnic superiority and difference. The sheer scale ...
... become ever more mindful of the role played by these classification schemes in American fitness culture, particularly the ways in which that culture aids in bolstering hierarchies of ethnic superiority and difference. The sheer scale ...
עמוד 12
... become , in Brumberg's view , secular forms of older religious disciplines such as fasting . Contempo- rary practices surrounding diet and exercise , Schwartz argues , comprise identifiable rituals in the modern religion of the perfect ...
... become , in Brumberg's view , secular forms of older religious disciplines such as fasting . Contempo- rary practices surrounding diet and exercise , Schwartz argues , comprise identifiable rituals in the modern religion of the perfect ...
עמוד 13
... become dramatically reconceptualized, with significant help from men and women professing Christianity but focusing as much on a “promised land of weight loss” as on an eternal kingdom of God. This book's interests lie in discerning how ...
... become dramatically reconceptualized, with significant help from men and women professing Christianity but focusing as much on a “promised land of weight loss” as on an eternal kingdom of God. This book's interests lie in discerning how ...
עמוד 20
... these reactions, however much they pique my ethnographic appetite; instead, I hope to persuade readers to contemplate such inward sentiments, from humor to revulsion, as they become perceptible. I 20 / Note on Reading the Images.
... these reactions, however much they pique my ethnographic appetite; instead, I hope to persuade readers to contemplate such inward sentiments, from humor to revulsion, as they become perceptible. I 20 / Note on Reading the Images.
עמוד 21
... become perceptible. I am no stranger to many of the wishful aspirations represented here; nor, I suspect, are you. Just as private feelings evoked by these visual images ought to be acknowledged, seeing as they comprise meaningful ...
... become perceptible. I am no stranger to many of the wishful aspirations represented here; nor, I suspect, are you. Just as private feelings evoked by these visual images ought to be acknowledged, seeing as they comprise meaningful ...
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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Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity <span dir=ltr>R. Marie Griffith</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2004 |
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