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 93
עמוד vii
... Body as Delusion ? Corresponding Bodies Female Sexual Pleasure and Mystical Communion : Reproducing a Civilized Race Regimens Shaping Bodies to Come 3. MINDING THE BODY : DIVERGENT PATHS OF NEW THOUGHT PERFECTIONISM 110 Living on Air ...
... Body as Delusion ? Corresponding Bodies Female Sexual Pleasure and Mystical Communion : Reproducing a Civilized Race Regimens Shaping Bodies to Come 3. MINDING THE BODY : DIVERGENT PATHS OF NEW THOUGHT PERFECTIONISM 110 Living on Air ...
עמוד 4
... body in American culture have not been straightforwardly or generically “Christian” at all but rather contextually grounded in white, middle-class Protestantism. My argument is not narrowly occupied with Protestantism as a point of ...
... body in American culture have not been straightforwardly or generically “Christian” at all but rather contextually grounded in white, middle-class Protestantism. My argument is not narrowly occupied with Protestantism as a point of ...
עמוד 7
... body shape—as a key, even chief, indicator of individual character and value. The search for external somatic indicators of internal states of being is age-old; and yet the peculiarly modern forms taken by this pursuit for body-soul ...
... body shape—as a key, even chief, indicator of individual character and value. The search for external somatic indicators of internal states of being is age-old; and yet the peculiarly modern forms taken by this pursuit for body-soul ...
עמוד 9
... body in American culture. In Born Again Bodies, I have embarked upon a more expansive story, one that commences long ... body ideology underpinning American consumer culture.9 From this approach, it is possi- ble to shift away from stale ...
... body in American culture. In Born Again Bodies, I have embarked upon a more expansive story, one that commences long ... body ideology underpinning American consumer culture.9 From this approach, it is possi- ble to shift away from stale ...
עמוד 10
... body ideologies analyzed herein, and so are most people likely to engage this text. The investigation does not culminate in a predicament merely of white, middle-class girls and women—typecast as those most prone to recognized eating ...
... body ideologies analyzed herein, and so are most people likely to engage this text. The investigation does not culminate in a predicament merely of white, middle-class girls and women—typecast as those most prone to recognized eating ...
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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