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niamh_e_c's review against another edition
5.0
A truly excellent study of the complex interaction between Christianity and secular culture, providing a much-needed nuance to overly simplistic accounts of the ‘secularised’ salvation myth ingrained in western thinness culture. A challenging read that reminds us as a church of our ongoing complicity in racial and economic hierarchies and injustices, and our fear and oppression of otherness. This is a sharply (and needfully) critical, yet deeply empathetic and well written book, and I would highly recommend it.
dashadashahi's review against another edition
4.0
Women's religious landscape is intimately shaped by their bodies, but men took play a critical role in establishing this relationship through their religious authority and also defining men's bodily relationship to religion. This book provides insight into how white American Protestantism entrenched gendered and racialized body norms in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Griffith provides a wonderful array of photos to support her analysis and the, occasionally, tongue-in-cheek quips makes this book a quick and worthwhile read.
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