Born again bodies : flesh and spirit in American Christianity /

Born again bodies : flesh and spirit in American Christianity /

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Author / Creator:	Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967- author.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	California studies in food and culture ; 12 California studies in food and culture ; 12.
Subject:	Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Protestantism -- United States -- History. Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. Human body -- Social aspects. Protestantism. United States -- Religious life and customs. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131571

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ISBN:	9780520938113 0520938119 1417545178 9781417545179 0520217535 9780520217539 0520242408 9780520242401
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	'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 make it to heaven.
Other form:	Print version: Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967- Born again bodies. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520217535 0520242408

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Summary:	"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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
ISBN:	9780520938113 0520938119 1417545178 9781417545179 0520217535 9780520217539 0520242408 9780520242401