Go Forth and Shrink!: Sin, Salvation and Women’s Weight Loss Narratives - Image 1

£38.33

Bloomsbury Go Forth and Shrink!: Sin, Salvation and Women’s Weight Loss Narratives

Name: Go Forth and Shrink!: Sin, Salvation and Women's Weight Loss Narratives
Brand: Bloomsbury
Price: 57.51 GBP
Availability: InStock

Christian Living

Price History & Forecast

Last 64 days • 64 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 64 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £58 (33 days, 51.6%)

Price range: £25 - £58

Price levels: 5 different prices over 64 days

Description

The fat body has increasingly become a site for a confrontation of different ideologies about lifestyle, as it is increasingly stigmatised and concerns about the obesity 'epidemic' create headlines in the newspapers. The weight-loss and diet industries are booming, and the rise in faith-based dieting among evangelical women in the US evidences a growing relationship between Christian devotion and the pursuit of female thinness. What exactly though is the relationship between Christianity and secular commercial diet plans? Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourse inform contemporary weight-loss narratives. From 'Syn', salvation and evangelism to discipleship, community and the formation of 'orthodoxy', this weight loss group develop principles and practices which are revealed to be rooted partly in Christian theological ideas and attitudes. Theological tropes and religious forms help produce and sustain a set of contradictions and tensions about weight loss which conform the women's bodies to patriarchal norms while simultaneously providing opportunities for women's self-development. Taking into account these tensions, Bacon asks what a specifically feminist theological response to weight loss might look like. Crucial to this is the confrontation of Christian tradition with the 'indecency' of pleasure, which develops into an account of eating as our 'sav(or)ing grace' and remembering an understanding of God as expansive, capacious and uncontainable. Can Christians say that God is fat? While naming as 'sin' principles and practices which diminish women's appetites and bodies, this book gives theological expression to the conviction of many women in this group, that food is a site of power, wisdom and self-knowledge.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 056765995X
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian Living
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 May 2018
Listed Since: 10 May 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Go Forth and Shrink!: Sin, Salvation and Women’s Weight Loss Narratives

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the Fat Body

Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration (Women and Psychology)

What's Wrong with Sin: Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation: Acts & Romans 1-8

Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality: The Relationship Between Food and Sex (Haworth Women's Studies)

Devotional Fitness: An Analysis of Contemporary Christian Dieting and Fitness Programs: 2 (Popular Culture, Religion and Society. A Social-Scientific Approach, 2)

Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications

Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times (Critical Approaches to Health)

Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture

T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin (Bloomsbury Companions)

Routledge Women and Religion in the West - Academic Book

The Good News of the Body: Sexual Theology and Feminism

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Mesure of Meanings: 2 (Food, Nutrition, and Culture)

Women Choosing Silence: Relationality and Transformation in Spiritual Practice (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology)

Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Bbpg)

Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse

Food and Femininity (Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics)

Schleiermacher’s Theology of Sin and Nature: Agency, Value, and Modern Theology (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Salvation in the World: The Crossroads of Public Theology (T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx)

Routledge - Appetite: Sex, Touch, and Desire in Women

The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting

Routledge - Sin and Salvation in Reformation England Book

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts: 85