The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

by Lisa Isherwood

We are living in a food and body image obsessed culture. We are encouraged to over-consume by the marketing and media that surround us and then berated by those same forces for doing so. At the same time, we are bombarded with images of unnaturally thin celebrities who go to enormous lengths to retain an unrealistic body image, either by extremes of dieting or through plastic surgery or both. The spiritual realm is not immune from these pressures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596270942
• ISBN13: 9781596270947
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.7"