Women’s Body Image, Disordered Eating, And Religion: A Critical Review Of The Literature
This literature review examines published case studies and quantitative research on the relationship between women’s body image, eating behavior, and religiosity. We begin with a historical perspective on the topic and then describe three basic ways that religion and body image/eating may be linked....
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2008
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 19, Pages: 183-208 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This literature review examines published case studies and quantitative research on the relationship between women’s body image, eating behavior, and religiosity. We begin with a historical perspective on the topic and then describe three basic ways that religion and body image/eating may be linked. Then, we describe many clinical case studies of highly pathological women and we next review quantitative empirical studies, some on samples of women diagnosed with eating disorders and some on normal non-diagnosed women. A general conclusion is that, in diagnosed and non-diagnosed women, several indices of religiosity are related in healthy ways to women’s body image and eating behavior, although these links are often statistically modest; some religiosity indices are related in unhealthy ways to women’s body/eating variables, and other indices have no statistical relationship to body/eating variables. The review closes with suggestions for advancing the field with refinements in design, methodology, sampling, and related areas. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004166462.i-299.61 |