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Lädt ... Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation (2023. Auflage)von Anastasia Kidd (Autor)
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Whether your body is small or large, aged or young, disabled or abled, toned or soft, lithe or stiff--or somewhere in-between--anti-fatness affects us all, because it is intended to. Fat Church critiques anti-fat prejudice and the Church's historic participation in it, calling for a fatphobic reckoning for the sake of God's gospel of freedom.Pastor and theological educator Anastasia Kidd reviews the history of diet culture, fat studies, beauty, body policing--and the white supremacist machinations underpinning them--in order to work for a society rooted in body liberation for all. Fat Church offers a disruption to social habits of shame and remembers the theology of abundance that calls us all beloved by God. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Anyway, we have a problem in our society that deem people who are on the heavy side as being lacking in moral character. They'd be slim like a model if only they ate properly. Apparently, however, most diets only work for a short time, but all the literature pimping various diet plans only talk about short-term gains. Yes, it's relatively easy to lose ten pounds if you diet diligently. I was a wrestler in high school and college, and know all about a quick crash diet to "make weight" for the match. But such crash dieting is unhealthy in the long run, and I can attest from my own experience, that "dieting down" to a lower weight class only works a little bit. Back in the day, I weighed something like 150 lbs, but the guys I would wrestle at the 152-lb weight class were all bigger and stronger than I. If I went down to the 145-lb weight class, I was competetive. But, I learned to my chagrin, that trying to get down to the 138-lb class rendered me lethargic and ineffectual.
What does that have to do with the book? Well, dieting works only a bit, and, generally, not long term. According to the author, all the glowing studies of success in losing oodles of pounds on the "something-or-other" diet plan only work for a while. But, if there were any follow up some five or ten years later on, all those alleged success stories would show that the weight-loss regime didn't actually solve any long-term problems. But, the diet community is controlled by people in the for-profit industry, so they constantly put out scientifically flawed studies. [thank the Good Lord that there was no "financial" incentive to fabricate similar successes regarding the observation of glowing gases containing excited argon or nitrogen with various other molecules. I can safely look at myself in the mirror, knowing the results I observed weren't ephemeral].
I suppose that, technically, I didn't read the whole book, and shouldn't get credit for the whole 299 pages. The book ends with a bunch of discussion questions on the issues raised by each chapter. I just skimmed them. I read the book to understand the author's point of view, but I wasn't involved in any kind of book-discussion group around the book's contents.
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