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 65
עמוד vii
... Fasting , Conquest , and Purgation William Sheldon's Metaphysical Somatotypes God in a Body : Gastronomy and Black Power 69 x.x. xi ix 1 19 23 4. Pray the Weight Away: Shaping Devotional Fitness Culture Shedd-ing Contents.
... Fasting , Conquest , and Purgation William Sheldon's Metaphysical Somatotypes God in a Body : Gastronomy and Black Power 69 x.x. xi ix 1 19 23 4. Pray the Weight Away: Shaping Devotional Fitness Culture Shedd-ing Contents.
עמוד viii
... Devotional Fitness Culture Shedd-ing Pounds: Scripture and Devotional Practice in Service to Weight Loss The Burgeoning Christian Diet Culture From Empathy to Authority: Shifting Models of Expertise Religious Devotion to Thinness ...
... Devotional Fitness Culture Shedd-ing Pounds: Scripture and Devotional Practice in Service to Weight Loss The Burgeoning Christian Diet Culture From Empathy to Authority: Shifting Models of Expertise Religious Devotion to Thinness ...
עמוד 4
... devotions. And intentional body regimens cross lines of class and race in very interesting ways. Notwith- standing all the possible crisscrossings and nuances, these practices draw their source and momentum from specific Protestant ...
... devotions. And intentional body regimens cross lines of class and race in very interesting ways. Notwith- standing all the possible crisscrossings and nuances, these practices draw their source and momentum from specific Protestant ...
עמוד 5
... devotional diet culture rarely imagine health and thinness as final ends; rather, they pursue bodily fitness as a vehicle for developing close, satisfy- ing relationships with a beloved whom they aim to please through obedient self ...
... devotional diet culture rarely imagine health and thinness as final ends; rather, they pursue bodily fitness as a vehicle for developing close, satisfy- ing relationships with a beloved whom they aim to please through obedient self ...
עמוד 6
... devotional logic of physical discipline. Fit bodies ostensibly signify fitter souls, whose prayers appear particularly, per- haps exclusively, suffused with wonder-working power. An appreciation of the emotional as well as the political ...
... devotional logic of physical discipline. Fit bodies ostensibly signify fitter souls, whose prayers appear particularly, per- haps exclusively, suffused with wonder-working power. An appreciation of the emotional as well as the political ...
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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