A review by dashadashahi
Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity by R. Marie Griffith

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.