Name/Title
Bodies in society :essays on Christianity in contemporary culture /Margaret R. Miles.Description
The pursuit of lifefulness: in search of a method -- Revisioning an embodied Christianity -- Violence against women in the historical Christian West and in North American secular culture: the visual and textual evidence -- Textual harassment: desire and the female body -- Celibacy as sexual orientation -- Religion and food: the case of eating disorders -- Voyeurism and visual images of violence -- Religion and values in contemporary North American popular film -- Film talk: an approach to moviegoing -- Larry Flynt in real life -- What you see is what you get: religion in prime time fiction television -- Fashioning the self -- Disney spirituality: an oxymoron? -- Bonhoeffer (the film) and Bonhoeffer (the theologian) -- The passion for social justice and The passion of the Christ -- Love in a culture of fear -- Pilgrimage as metaphor in a nuclear age -- Imitation of Christ: is it possible in the twentieth century? -- Hermeneutics of generosity and suspicion: pluralism and theological education -- Theory, theology, and Episcopal churchwomen -- From the garden to the academy: blame, battle, or a better way? Exploring sex and power in the academy.
xiv, 227 p. ;23 cm.Book Details
Author
Miles, Margaret R.Date Published
circa 2008Publication Subjects
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity and culture.Call No.
BT741.3 .M55 2008ISBN
9781556354212, 1556354215Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).