Born again bodies : flesh and spirit in American Christianity /

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"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 York...

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Front matter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
A Note on Reading the Images --
1. Gluttons for Regimen --
2. Sculptors of Our Own Exterior --
3. Minding the Body --
4. Pray the Weight Away --
5. "Don't Eat That" --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Primary Source Bibliography --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Griffith, R. Marie
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
"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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (338 p.)
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.
ISBN:
9786612763076
9780520938113
0520938119
9781282763074
1282763075
9781597345071
1597345075
Schlagworte:
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Protestantism > United States > History.
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