Gluttons for Regimen
Gluttons for Regimen
Anglo-Protestant Culture and the Reorientation of Appetite
This chapter treats three sets of devotional practices whose modern enactment both reflected and generated broad cultural variations in the meaning of human embodiment. One of the most enduring and elastic devotional practices aiming at bodily discipline was food abstinence or the discipline of fasting. The discipline of fast became important in Christian communal practice during the early fourth century
Keywords: regimen, fasting, durability, soul
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