‘Cooking with Gordon’: Food, Health, and the Elasticity of Evangelical Gender Roles (and Belt Sizes) on The 700 Club
This article examines evangelical gender paradigms as expressed through a 700 Club cooking segment facilitated by Gordon Robertson, the son of Pat Robertson - founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), The 700 Club, Christian Coalition, and one-time presidential candidate. Several themes c...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2013]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 108-124 |
Further subjects: | B
Television
B family and kinship B Foodways B gendered practices B embodied ritual B Evangelicalism |
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Summary: | This article examines evangelical gender paradigms as expressed through a 700 Club cooking segment facilitated by Gordon Robertson, the son of Pat Robertson - founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), The 700 Club, Christian Coalition, and one-time presidential candidate. Several themes converge within this cooking show, including health and nutrition, family ritual, and gender roles. Using the cooking segment as data, I draw on scholarship on body, gender, family and ritual to argue that evangelical discourses are labile in their responses to recent socio-cultural shifts and suggest that ‘Sunday Dinners: Cooking with Gordon’ defies caricatures of evangelical gender formation and signals a shift to soft-patriarchy and quasi-egalitarianism, at least within public, visual discourse. ‘Sunday Dinners’ underscores the centrality of the family in evangelical discourse - even as conceptions of gender are in flux - as it seeks to facilitate everyday rituals via cooking and eating together. |
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ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00301008 |