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 85
עמוד iv
... Religion and American Culture 11, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 119–53. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ... Religious aspects—Christianity—History of doc- trines. 2. Body, Human—Social aspects—United States—History. 3. United ...
... Religion and American Culture 11, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 119–53. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ... Religious aspects—Christianity—History of doc- trines. 2. Body, Human—Social aspects—United States—History. 3. United ...
עמוד xi
... religion and the body at Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Harvard Divin- ity School. From a ... Religion Project, directed by James Hudnut-Beumler and funded by the Lilly Endowment; and the Women's Studies in ...
... religion and the body at Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Harvard Divin- ity School. From a ... Religion Project, directed by James Hudnut-Beumler and funded by the Lilly Endowment; and the Women's Studies in ...
עמוד xii
... Religion and Culture Workshop at Princeton, the American Religion Colloquium at Harvard, and Material Religion Project meetings, as well as from my Harvard cohort of research associates—Paola Bacchetta, Kelly Pemberton, Brigid Sackey ...
... Religion and Culture Workshop at Princeton, the American Religion Colloquium at Harvard, and Material Religion Project meetings, as well as from my Harvard cohort of research associates—Paola Bacchetta, Kelly Pemberton, Brigid Sackey ...
עמוד xiii
... religious indi- viduals have seemed to deny, ignore, or absolve from faith-based culpability. Such a collective refusal to acknowledge, say, religion's contributing role in the cultural exaltation of slender white bodies over other ...
... religious indi- viduals have seemed to deny, ignore, or absolve from faith-based culpability. Such a collective refusal to acknowledge, say, religion's contributing role in the cultural exaltation of slender white bodies over other ...
עמוד 3
... religion are also more likely to be overweight . In other words , many ' firm believers ' do not have ' firm bodies ... religious messages might also be playing out in so - called secular American diet culture ? Sur- veying the past ...
... religion are also more likely to be overweight . In other words , many ' firm believers ' do not have ' firm bodies ... religious messages might also be playing out in so - called secular American diet culture ? Sur- veying the past ...
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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