Weighty matter(s)
Religion, secularism, and American weight loss culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Rifai (0000-0002-0957-978X, University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12342 |
| OpenAlex | W2998938382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
While calorie counting seems an utterly secular and mundane practice in the United States, body management has historically been and remains a weighty matter intimately linked with morality. Weight loss cultures and diet reform movements tell us quite a bit about both the aspirations as well as the apprehensions of particular times and places. Over the last few decades, scholars have started to chart different weight loss cultures in the United States and how they have emerged, interacted, and evolved over time. Diet reform movements in the United States, we have learned, are ultimately entanglements of religion, secularism, and gendered bodies. This essay considers how some scholars have tried to make sense of these entanglements by exploring three key approaches. Ultimately, we will find that bodies and weight management became and continue to be sites where tensions between religion and secularism were and are negotiated
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Morality · Morality and religion · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |