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100	1		_aBacon, Hannah _d1978- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFeminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture: Sin, Salvation and Women`s Weight Loss Narratives _b
260			_aLondon _bT&T Clark _c2019
300			_a346p _c23 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [311]-337) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: theology, food and fat: a healthy recipe? -- Syn, danger, and disordered desire -- Syn, self-surveillance and taking care: tensions and ambiguities -- Salvation, "getting rid" and "getting there" -- Rethinking sin: sizeism, the victimization of food, and the divided-self -- Rethinking salvation: a (re)turn to "sensible" eating -- Rethinking salvation: Sabbath and fat pride -- Conclusion: for the love of food, for the love of fat.
520			_a"The fat body has increasingly become a site for a confrontation of different ideologies about lifestyle, as it is increasingly stigmatized and concerns about the obesity 'epidemic' create headlines in the newspapers. Weight-loss industries are booming, and the rise in faith-based dieting among Protestant 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 discourses inform contemporary weight-loss narratives. Notions of sin and salvation resurface in secular guise, but in ways that repeat well-established theological meanings. Theological tropes 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. If notions of sin and salvation service hegemonic discourses about fat, how might they be rethought to challenge fat phobia and the frenetic pursuit of thinness? 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 the group, that food and the body can be important sites of power, wisdom and transformation"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aReducing diets _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aWeight loss _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aBody image in women _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aFeminist theology.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBacon, Hannah, 1978- author. _tFeminist theology and contemporary dieting culture _dLondon ; New York : T&T Clark, [2019] _z9780567659965 _w(DLC) 2019010231
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