Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book explores how traditional religious norms and narratives are tacitly embedded in the construction and pursuit of physical improvement in contemporary western societies. Religious and commercial ideologies that incite conformity and control call us...
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This book explores how traditional religious norms and narratives are tacitly embedded in the construction and pursuit of physical improvement in contemporary western societies. Religious and commercial ideologies that incite conformity and control call us to go to war against those parts of our flesh that refuse to comply with the cultural ideal and encourage us to feel ashamed of our physical particularities. This shame is not a natural response to bodily girth, illness, chronic pain, physical impairment, and/or signs of aging. Rather, Michelle Mary Lelwica shows it is a religiously and culturally conditioned reaction to the commercially-fabricated fantasy of physical perfection.
Autoren-Porträt von Michelle Mary Lelwica
Michelle Mary Lelwica is Professor of Religion at Concordia College, USA. She is the author of The Religion of Thinness (2009) and Starving for Salvation (1999).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michelle Mary Lelwica
- 288 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1472594932
- ISBN-13: 9781472594938
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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