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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Perilous Body Gospels | |
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| A Note on Reading the Images | |
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| Gluttons for Regimen: Anglo-Protestant Culture and the Reorientation of Appetite | |
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| The Diet of Angels: Fasting in Early Modern Anglo-American Protestantism | |
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| Gospels of Physick: Medicine, Methodism, and Mortification | |
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| Rarefied Flesh: Sexual Regulation, Bodily Pleasure, and Perfection | |
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| Phrenology and Somatic Authenticity | |
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| Sculptors of our Own Exterior: New Thought Physiques | |
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| "Nothing but a Dense Shadow": The Body as Delusion? | |
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| Corresponding Bodies | |
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| Female Sexual Pleasure and Mystical Communion: Reproducing a Civilized Race | |
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| Regimens Shaping Bodies to Come | |
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| Minding the Body: Divergent Paths of New Thought Perfectionism | |
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| Living on Air: Gospels of Fasting, Conquest, and Purgation | |
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| William Sheldon's Metaphysical Somatotypes | |
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| God in a Body: Gastronomy and Black Power | |
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| Pray the Weight Away: Shaping Devotional Fitness Culture | |
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| Shedd-ing Pounds: Scripture and Devotional Practice in Service to Weight Loss | |
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| The Burgeoning Christian Diet Culture | |
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| From Empathy to Authority: Shifting Models of Expertise | |
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| Religious Devotion to Thinness Outside Mainstream Protestantism | |
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| "Don't Eat That": Denial, Indulgence, and Exclusion in Christian Diet Culture | |
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| Poisoned Bodies, Blemished Souls: Food as Taint and Transgression | |
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| Loved on a Smaller Scale: Women, Weight, and the Divine Lover Above | |
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| The Power of Perfection: Purified Bodies and Racialized Worlds | |
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| Epilogue: Bodies in Crisis? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Primary Source Bibliography | |
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| Index | |