Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground
…to investigate the moral and religious construction of fatness. And the comparison with ex-gay ministries seemed like a productive way to explore how certain bodies and bodily desires become morally charged, how people try to change them, and what happens when those bodies and desires prove resistant to change. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That religion is both central to and often invisible in many Western bodily proje…
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