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This article explores the theological themes prevalent in the language of anorexia nervosa by briefly exploring extant literature in the field before reporting on the author’s qualitative fieldwork with Christian women with anorexia nervosa.
5 maj 2020 · In this article, drawing on extant literature and my own fieldwork, I will outline four key areas in which sufferers of anorexia nervosa use the language of religion to express their illness: sin and idolatry, morality, demon possession and the use of ritualistic frameworks.
10 gru 2021 · Read How Jesus Has Helped Me in My Recovery Journey from Anorexia by Vivian Bricker. Learn what the Bible says about health, beauty and Biblical womanhood!
3 lip 2017 · They were empowered by their roles as religious mystics, and drew strength from suffering, distress and fasting. We briefly examined them in the context of modern diagnostic and aetiological explanations of eating disorders (particularly Anorexia nervosa).
Bell's Holy Anorexia offers a simple and attractive exposition of the behaviors of female Italian saints which resemble those attributed to anorexia nervosa. Bell accepts the modern clinicians' profile of the psychodynamics governing anorexia nervosa.
The purpose of this paper is to look at what the Bible says about the significance of nutrition, its effect on health, and the benefits of a Christian-worldview on nutritional wellbeing.
1 kwi 2013 · Anorexia mirabilis, holy anorexia, or inedia prodigiosa means miraculous lack of appetite. This syndrome was popular among religious people in the Middle Ages. Perhaps the most popular case of anorexia mirabilis took place in Tuscany in the 14th century.
