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 46
עמוד xiii
... fact, comments much more strongly than my earlier work upon social realities that some religious indi- viduals have seemed to deny, ignore, or absolve from faith-based culpability. Such a collective refusal to acknowledge, say ...
... fact, comments much more strongly than my earlier work upon social realities that some religious indi- viduals have seemed to deny, ignore, or absolve from faith-based culpability. Such a collective refusal to acknowledge, say ...
עמוד 4
... fact, as this study contends, questions raised about the 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 ...
... fact, as this study contends, questions raised about the 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 ...
עמוד 11
... fact, have paid more than passing attention to the concrete role of religious emotions, rituals, or communities in American alimentary and fitness practices, an elision all the more con- spicuous in the wake of incisive studies of the ...
... fact, have paid more than passing attention to the concrete role of religious emotions, rituals, or communities in American alimentary and fitness practices, an elision all the more con- spicuous in the wake of incisive studies of the ...
עמוד 16
... fact the New Thought movement, chronicled in chapter 2, happens to be a fruitful turn- ing point in this history, for that movement's Progressive Era proponents were acutely preoccupied with the correlations of mind and matter, the soul ...
... fact the New Thought movement, chronicled in chapter 2, happens to be a fruitful turn- ing point in this history, for that movement's Progressive Era proponents were acutely preoccupied with the correlations of mind and matter, the soul ...
עמוד 27
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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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