Fat Religion

Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to conform fat bodies to thin ideals. **

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Lynne Gerber is independent scholar in San Francisco, USA.

Susan Hill is Professor and head of the Department of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA.

LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant is Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College (Williamstown, USA) and founder of ConjureGirlBlue Productions, a media company specializing in short form storytelling.

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Preface

Lynne Gerber, Susan Hill and LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant

Introduction: Religion and Fat = Protestant Christianity and Weight Loss? On the Intersections of Fat Studies and Religious Studies

Lynne Gerber, Susan Hill and LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant

1. Fat, Syn, and Disordered Eating: The Dangers and Powers of Excess

Hannah Bacon

2. Guilt-Free and Sinfully Delicious: A Contemporary Theology of Weight Loss Dieting

Emily J. H. Contois

3. The Christian Dieter's Dilemma: Abundance and Restriction in Two Christian Weight Loss Programs

Lynne Gerber

4. God's Diets: The Fat Body and the Bible as an Eating Guide in Evangelical Christianity

Fabio Parasecoli

5. Pounds Off for Jesus: Oral Roberts University and the Fat Body, 1976 to 1978

Jonathan Root

6. Christianity, Fat Talk, and Samoan Pastors: Rethinking the Fat-Positive-Fat-Stigma Framework

Jessica Hardin

7. Good News: A Sermon on Fat Justice

Mycroft Masada