Starving for salvation : the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women / Michelle Mary Lelwica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lelwica, Michelle Mary, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eating disorders--Patients--Religious life.

Eating disorders.

Women--Health and hygiene--Religious aspects.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lelwica puts forward a hypothesis about eating disorders that has both theoretical and clinical implications, identifying them as specifically religious problems symbolizing a yearning for spiritual fulfilment that can be addressed with religious resources.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; ONE: BODIES OF EVIDENCE, BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: Contemporary Approaches, Historical Perspectives, New Directions; TWO: THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL FEMALE BODY: Popular Icons of Womanhood and the Salvation Myth of Female Slendemess; THREE: LOSING THEIR WAY TO SALVATION: Popular Rituals of Womanhood and the Saving Promises of Culture Lite; FOUR: UNIVERSES OF MEANING, WORLDS OF PAIN: The Struggles of Anorexic and Bulimic Girls and Women; FIVE: A DIFFERENT KIND OF SALVATION: Cultivating Alternative Senses, Practices, and Visions; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774130-4

1-280-47201-4

9786610472017

0-19-535193-2

1-4237-6031-X

OCLC:

476012336