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Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the
Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the
moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to
conform fat bodies to thin ideals. Focusing primarily on Protestant
Christianity and evangelicalism, this book brings together essays
that emphasize the role of religion in the ways that we imagine,
talk about, and moralize fat bodies. Contributors explore how ideas
about indulgence and restraint, sin and obedience are used to
create and maintain fear of, and animosity towards, fat bodies.
They also examine how religious ideology and language shape
attitudes towards bodily control that not only permeate Christian
weight-loss programs, but are fundamental to secular diet culture
as well. Furthermore, the contributors investigate how religious
institutions themselves attempt to define and control the proper
religious body. This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of
critical fat studies by underscoring the significance of religion
in the formation of historical and contemporary meanings and
perceptions of fat bodies, including its moralizing role in
justifying weight bias, prejudice, and privilege. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.
Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the
Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the
moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to
conform fat bodies to thin ideals. Focusing primarily on Protestant
Christianity and evangelicalism, this book brings together essays
that emphasize the role of religion in the ways that we imagine,
talk about, and moralize fat bodies. Contributors explore how ideas
about indulgence and restraint, sin and obedience are used to
create and maintain fear of, and animosity towards, fat bodies.
They also examine how religious ideology and language shape
attitudes towards bodily control that not only permeate Christian
weight-loss programs, but are fundamental to secular diet culture
as well. Furthermore, the contributors investigate how religious
institutions themselves attempt to define and control the proper
religious body. This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of
critical fat studies by underscoring the significance of religion
in the formation of historical and contemporary meanings and
perceptions of fat bodies, including its moralizing role in
justifying weight bias, prejudice, and privilege. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
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