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Born again bodies : flesh and spirit in American Christianity /

Main Author: Griffith, R. Marie 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 12
Subjects:
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Protestantism > History. > United States
Human body.
Protestantism.
Body, Human > Religious aspects > Christianity > H.
United States > Religious life and customs.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Sacred Sexuality.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Lichaamscultuur.
Verenigde Staten.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index. 
505 0 |a 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? 
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