Born Again Bodies
Subtitle: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (California Studies in Food and Culture, 12)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780520217539
Subjects: Christian theology; Social aspects; History; United States; Christianity; Sociology; Religious aspects; Religion; USA; History of doctrines; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - Physical; Christian Life - Physical Health; Religion / General; Body, Human; Christianity - General; Protestantism
First sentence: Monks wasting away in the desert, saints beating their bodies and sleeping on nails, apostles renouncing all pleasures and subsisting on the charity of benefactors, pious men and women starving their senses in emulation of Christ: it is by now a truism to note that devout Christians of earlier eras displayed profound ambivalence about the flesh.