Titlebook: Devotional Fitness; An Analysis of Conte Martin Radermacher Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 Christian body image.North

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Motivation, Motives, and Individual Agency These communications build on a stock of embodied and discursive motifs. These elements must have come from somewhere; i.e., the cultural repertoire that contains them must have been compiled somehow. The task of this chapter is to introduce the relevant discourses and practices that have contribut

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Language Use and Social Interactionhis chapter turns to evangelical renderings of the discourse on beauty, body weight, and spirituality. The histories of fitness and evangelical religion in the United States are entangled. This will be shown with regard to movements such as Muscular Christianity, the Young Men’s Christian Associatio

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Language Use and Social Interactionconnection of God and the believers’ body, the central topic of devotional fitness, because devotional fitness as a system of communications and embodiments revolves around the motif of the body as God’s temple. I also explain how exercise routines are perceived as enactments of God’s will, which is

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Judith A. Howard,Daniel G. Renfrownd practices from their various environments. Based on Cohen’s notion of “community” as grounded in similarity and difference, I suggest approaching the discursive negotiations of devotional fitness programs in a similar way. I assume that there are several counterparts to devotional fitness, discou

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Attraction and Interpersonal Relationships? This question aims at understanding how the identity of devotional fitness programs is created and also at conceptualizing devotional fitness programs in a theoretically fruitful manner. As I have tried to show in the previous chapters, the identity of programs stems from the way they relate to th

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Shaping the Body Idealthat contains them must have been compiled somehow. The task of this chapter is to introduce the relevant discourses and practices that have contributed to compiling the cultural resources from which later programs of devotional fitness could draw such as the New Thought movement, the self-help genre, the Alcoholics Anonymous, and others.

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Evangelicals and the Bodyon in the United States are entangled. This will be shown with regard to movements such as Muscular Christianity, the Young Men’s Christian Association, and various authors and programs of an emerging devotional fitness discourse.

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Conclusions programs build an identity in their different contexts. In answering these questions, I have dealt with these issues in detail, analyzing the various practices and value-ideas occurring in the field from different perspectives. In the conclusions, I draw together the main arguments developed from this study.

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