95 research outputs found
Fat, syn and disordered eating: The dangers and powers of excess
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Fat Studies on 8 April 2015 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21604851.2015.1016777This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this group’s language of “Syn.” Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold women’s bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating.This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this group’s language of “Syn.” Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold women’s bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating
Burnt and Blossoming: Material Mysticism in Trilogy and Four Quartets
This paper brings two WWII poems into dialogue: H.D.'s Trilogy and Eliot's Four Quartets. Both poems express a creative response to the destruction of war. My reading of Trilogy suggests a material mysticism in which vision and renewal are situated within the natural world, rituals and bodily experience. Bringing this understanding of mysticism to bear on Four Quartets reveals tension between transcendence and materiality. For Eliot, redemption comes through time and location, while for H.D., redemption lies within material particularity. Four Quartets oscillates between an apophatic discourse that seeks to transcend desire and history and an emphasis on material particularities
A autoridade, o desejo e a alquimia da política: linguagem e poder na constituição do papado medieval (1060-1120)
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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. By Marina Warner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 400 pp. $19.95.
Strange beauty. Issues in the making and meaning of reliquaries, 400–circa 1204. By Cynthia Hahn . Pp. xiv + 302 incl. 126 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 frontispiece. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. £36.95 (paper). 978 0 271 05078 2
A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M. N. Eire. Edited by Emily Michelson, Scott K. Taylor, and Mary Noll Venables. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. xi + 250 pp. $119.95 cloth.
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