Pro-Anorexic Communities
Title: Pro-Anorexic Communities
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1408 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pro-Anorexic Communities
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1408 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Groups of people from all over the world who are struggling with body and food related issues are coming together in internet communities that support and promote eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa. These pro-anorexic communities have developed recognisable qualities of religious systems very similar to that of the Christian faith and fit Emile Durkhiem defination of religious phenomena and religion.
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to scared things,
showed first 75 words of 1408 total
You are viewing only a small portion of the paper.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
showed last 75 words of 1408 total
allows for the development of the individual within a secure and supportive society.
Emile Durkheims definition of religious phenomena and of religion indicate that these communities have characteristics of a developing religious institutions
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to scared things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Chruch, all those who adhere to them.