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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.
Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both
notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful
evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality
are godly ideals - and that God will provide reliable paths toward
them for those who fall short. "Seeking the Straight and Narrow" is
a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter
our strongest bodily desires. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place,
a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International,
a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne Gerber explores why some
Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly
they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of
the program's results - or, frequently, their lack. Gerber notes
the differences and striking parallels between the two programs,
and, more broadly, she traces the ways that other social
institutions have attempted to contain the excesses associated with
fatness and homosexuality. Challenging narratives that place
evangelicals in constant opposition to dominant American values,
Gerber shows that these programs reflect the often overlooked
connection between American cultural obsessions and Christian ones.
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