Catholic Fasting Literature in a Context of Body Hatred: A Feminist Critique
Some concerned Catholic theologians and popular writers have addressed the ubiquity of body hatred in the United States in their prescriptive considerations of liturgical fasting. This essay brings a feminist theological lens to their writings to argue that this Catholic fasting literature presents...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Horizons
Year: 2019, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-245 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Fasting
B Dieting B Practice B Catholicism B Body B Feminist Theology B body hatred B Food |
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| Summary: | Some concerned Catholic theologians and popular writers have addressed the ubiquity of body hatred in the United States in their prescriptive considerations of liturgical fasting. This essay brings a feminist theological lens to their writings to argue that this Catholic fasting literature presents dualistic and decontextualized accounts of embodiment and of sacramental practice that reify the discursive structures of body hatred in the US context. In response, the author advocates for a shift in Catholic theological discourse about fasting as one attempt to resist body hatred and support more liberative possibilities for embodiment in this context.* |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2019.55 |