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Born Again Bodies
R. Marie Griffith
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University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Christentum
Beschreibung
"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.
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spirituality, beauty ideals, christian dieting, fitness programs, diet culture, diet literature, christianity, christian fitness, diet programs, food and culture, diet preachers, sociology, america, diet and nutrition, theoretical approach, american history, diet history, nonfiction survey, spiritual connections, nonfiction, religious movements, united states, religious perspectives, obesity, overweight populations, physical anthropology, bigotry, born again christians