Born again bodies : flesh and spirit in American Christianity /
'Born Again Bodies' explores a modern manifestation of religious asceticism. Using literature with titles such as 'What Would Jesus Eat?' the promoters of Christian diet programmes are enrolling hundreds of thousands of Americans prepared to believe that fat people won't mak...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Gluttons for regimen: Anglo-Protestant culture and the reorientation of appetite
- The diet of angels: fasting in early modern Anglo-American Protestanism
- Gospels of physick: sexual regulation, bodily pleasure and perfection
- Phrenology and somatic authenticity
- 2. Sculptors of our own exterior: new thought physiques
- "Nothing but a dense shadow": the body as delusion?
- Corresponding bodies
- Femal sexual pleasure and mystical communion: reproducing a civilized race
- Regimens shaping bodies to come
- 3. Minding the body: divergent paths of new thought perfectionism
- Living on air: gospels of fasting, conquest, and purgation
- William Sheldon's metaphysical somatotypes
- God in a body: gastronomy and black power
- 4. Pray the weight away: shaping devotional fitness culture
- Shedd-ing pounds: scripture and devotional practice in service to weight loss
- The burgeoning Christian diet culture
- From empathy to authority: shifting models of expertise
- Religious devotion to thinness outside mainstream Protestanism
- 5. "Don't eat that": denial, indulgence, and exclusion in Christian diet culture
- Poisoned bodies, blemished souls: food as taint and transgression
- Loved on a smaller scale: women, weight, and the divine lover above
- The power of perfection: purified bodies and racialized worlds
- Epilogue: bodies in crisis?
