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The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Fleshy Christologies

submitted by DalAng 1 year and 8 months ago


This paper takes issue with the Slim for Him programmes which suggest that Christianity has no place for the fleshy, indeed that the devil lurks in ample bodies. It investigates the way in which women have suffered a reducing rhetoric which has had its genesis in certain kinds of theology but has exacted a great price on the flesh of women. The paper therefore offers a fleshy Christology as a counter rhetoric in the hope that women may once again dance in their skins and offer another set of values on their broad hips.

Topic: Religion



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