Digital Waistlands:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Digital Waistlands: "
Emma Rifai

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082571
Doc. No	:	LA126200
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-BJA10018‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Emma Rifai
Title & Author	:	Digital Waistlands: [Article] : Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment\ Emma Rifai
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2
Page No	:	207–227
Abstract	:	Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana movement by exploring how anas embody religious values through their performances of pro-ana culture. We see this both in terms of the more obvious mobilizations of religious rhetorics common with some of the pro-ana community, as well as in more subtle manifestations of Protestant values embedded in key pro-ana commitments and behaviors. By analyzing the popular pro-ana site “MyPancakeAddiction,” I explore how anas embody this digital culture through performances of a shared value system rooted in commitments to individualism, self-control, and mastery – themes often associated with Protestantism.
Descriptor	:	body management
Descriptor	:	digital culture
Descriptor	:	eating disorders
Descriptor	:	online communities
Descriptor	:	pro-ana
Descriptor	:	Protestantism
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	weight loss
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-BJA10018‬