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 90
עמוד 5
... physical health because they sense that the able-bodied—those who restrain their bodily desires and seek some degree ... physical culturists, and late twentieth-century evangelical diet preachers is a general conviction about the ...
... physical health because they sense that the able-bodied—those who restrain their bodily desires and seek some degree ... physical culturists, and late twentieth-century evangelical diet preachers is a general conviction about the ...
עמוד 6
... 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 intricacy of these ...
... 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 intricacy of these ...
עמוד 7
... physical appearance—coded prominently by 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 ...
... physical appearance—coded prominently by 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 ...
עמוד 11
... physical health. To the contrary, observers and analysts predictably imbue these anxieties, desires, and convictions about the perfectible body with the whiff of religious fervor. Hence, a plethora of interpretive writings, both ...
... physical health. To the contrary, observers and analysts predictably imbue these anxieties, desires, and convictions about the perfectible body with the whiff of religious fervor. Hence, a plethora of interpretive writings, both ...
עמוד 14
... physical culture, others meditative disciplines and spiri- tual attunement, still others an assortment of faith-healing procedures. Like heirs feuding over the legacy of an imposing patriarch, different groups of believers have laid ...
... physical culture, others meditative disciplines and spiri- tual attunement, still others an assortment of faith-healing procedures. Like heirs feuding over the legacy of an imposing patriarch, different groups of believers have laid ...
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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