ABSTRACT

This chapter invites us to bring our whole selves—body, heart, mind, and soul—to embracing the spiritual and religious traditions that are our birthright. Drawing on feminist reclamations of Judaism, it explores how Torah, Jewish tradition as a whole, and, by extension, religious and spiritual traditions more broadly, are rendered inaccessible to fat people and to others who are subject to weight stigma. It then offers a “Torah of fat liberation” that seeks to deploy religious and spiritual tradition in ways that are liberatory for all bodies.