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 2
... perfect health with a creationist diet of distilled water and green leaves of barley—the devout theologize about food and fat as never before. Disregard what goes into your body, many suggest, and you will not only gain weight, look ...
... perfect health with a creationist diet of distilled water and green leaves of barley—the devout theologize about food and fat as never before. Disregard what goes into your body, many suggest, and you will not only gain weight, look ...
עמוד 6
... perfect health and slenderness as physical signs of regeneration. That quasi-mythic trajectory has by no means been a straight and easy one, nor does this story follow a tidy chronological sequence of events so much as a series of ...
... perfect health and slenderness as physical signs of regeneration. That quasi-mythic trajectory has by no means been a straight and easy one, nor does this story follow a tidy chronological sequence of events so much as a series of ...
עמוד 8
... perfect or at least per- fectible bodies draws on this selfsame need to divide the world into good and evil, holy and demonic, Christians and infidels. Yet the benign, even altru- istic intentions for slimming expressed by devotional ...
... perfect or at least per- fectible bodies draws on this selfsame need to divide the world into good and evil, holy and demonic, Christians and infidels. Yet the benign, even altru- istic intentions for slimming expressed by devotional ...
עמוד 12
... perfect body . The psycho- religious explanation — American body fixations compensate for sublimated puritan guilt through the creation of a morality - driven diet culture - is evocative and sometimes compelling ; yet it favors vague ...
... perfect body . The psycho- religious explanation — American body fixations compensate for sublimated puritan guilt through the creation of a morality - driven diet culture - is evocative and sometimes compelling ; yet it favors vague ...
עמוד 13
... perfect”—and deviant—American bodies. Keeping this complexity in mind, I analyze some of the most powerful gospels of the body to have flourished in recent memory, ones that remain fundamental preoccupations for growing num- bers in the ...
... perfect”—and deviant—American bodies. Keeping this complexity in mind, I analyze some of the most powerful gospels of the body to have flourished in recent memory, ones that remain fundamental preoccupations for growing num- bers in the ...
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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