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"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.

Human body --- Protestantism --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation --- Religious aspects --- History of doctrines. --- Social aspects --- History. --- United States --- Religious life and customs. --- america. --- american history. --- beauty ideals. --- bigotry. --- born again christians. --- christian dieting. --- christian fitness. --- christianity. --- diet and nutrition. --- diet culture. --- diet history. --- diet literature. --- diet preachers. --- diet programs. --- fitness programs. --- food and culture. --- nonfiction survey. --- nonfiction. --- obesity. --- overweight populations. --- physical anthropology. --- religious movements. --- religious perspectives. --- sociology. --- spiritual connections. --- spirituality. --- theoretical approach. --- united states.

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"Making the World Over examines the histories behind the issues at the root of our nation's conflicts both past and present, from race and immigration to misogyny and reproductive rights, in an attempt to encourage constructive dialogue"--

Xenophobia --- Racism --- Historiography. --- United States --- Race relations --- Ethnic relations

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Religious studies --- Sociology of minorities --- Demography --- Africa --- Caribbean area --- United States --- Brazil --- United States of America --- Migration background --- Migration --- Religion --- Religious practices --- Women --- Blackness --- Book

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"This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. Examining the lives of women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry." "The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those in which memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational scope, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created the largest private school system in the nation; and established a vast network of hospitals, orphanages, and charitable organizations. Yet in both scholarly and popular works of history, the distinctive presence and agency of Catholics as Catholics is almost entirely absent. In this book, R. Scott Appleby and Kathleen Sprows Cummings bring together American historians of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place in the national myth of origins and ends. A long overdue corrective, Catholics in the American Century restores Catholicism to its rightful place in the American story.

Catholics --- Christians --- History --- Catholic Church --- United States --- 20th century --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교