Eating Religiously

Author : Nir Avieli,Fran Markowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000988154

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This book, the first of its kind, critically analyzes the conjunctions of 21st century food, faith and society. It aims to provide a fresh approach that theorizes the culinary sphere in its association with morality, identity, justice and the sublime. In a changing climate of food fads, diet plans, gastropolitics and fusion tastes, this edited volume interrogates, analyzes and critiques various situations in which food, the state, civil society, gender, race, and faith intersect and even transmute. Informed by emergent post-secularist views of religion(s) and novel approaches to twenty-first century forms of mobility and fixity, the book's primary aim is to ponder through ethnography the manifold meanings of food, eating and commensality as dynamic social and religious practices. The main goal of Eating Religiously: Food and Faith in the 21st Century is to present cutting-edge anthropological research that examines the causes, effects, meanings and repercussions of theoretical and real-world relationships between culinary practices and religion, identity politics and national pride. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Food, Culture, and Society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1003429327

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This book, the first of its kind, critically analyzes the conjunctions of 21st century food, faith and society. It aims to provide a fresh approach that theorizes the culinary sphere in its association with morality, identity, justice and the sublime. In a changing climate of food fads, diet plans, gastropolitics and fusion tastes, this edited volume interrogates, analyzes and critiques various situations in which food, the state, civil society, gender, race, and faith intersect and even transmute. Informed by emergent post-secularist views of religion(s) and novel approaches to twenty-first century forms of mobility and fixity, the book's primary aim is to ponder through ethnography the manifold meanings of food, eating and commensality as dynamic social and religious practices. The main goal of Eating Religiously: Food and Faith in the 21st Century is to present cutting-edge anthropological research that examines the causes, effects, meanings and repercussions of theoretical and real-world relationships between culinary practices and religion, identity politics and national pride. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Food, Culture, and Society.

Author : Nyamnjoh, Francis B.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956550968

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Eating and Being Eaten by Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Pdf

This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively cannibalising and being cannibalised. The underlying message of: ‘Own up to your own cannibalism!’ is convincingly argued and richly substantiated. The book brilliantly and controversially puts cannibalism at the heart of the self-assured biomedicine, globalising consumerism and voyeuristic social media. It unveils a vast number of prejudices, blind spots and shameful othering. It calls on the reader to consider a morality and an ethics that are carefully negotiated with required sensibility and sensitivity to the fact that no one and no people have the monopoly of cannibalisation and of creative improvisation in the game of cannibalism. The productive, transformative and (re)inventive understanding of cannibalism argued in the book should bring to the fore one of the most vital aspects of what it means to be human in a dynamic world of myriad interconnections and enchantments. To nourish and cherish such a productive form of cannibalism requires not only a compassionate generosity to let in and accommodate the stranger knocking at the door, but also, and more importantly, a deliberate effort to reach in, identify, contemplate, understand, embrace and become intimate with the stranger within us, individuals and societies alike.

Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780521195508

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Food and Faith by Norman Wirzba Pdf

A comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral and theological significance.

Author : Loyle Shannon Jung
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451412770

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Food for Life by Loyle Shannon Jung Pdf

Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians' complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally, culturally, and globally, and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith, Christian practices, attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening, the church's ministry, and transforming our cultural policies about food.

Author : Ken Albala,Trudy Eden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231520799

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Food and Faith in Christian Culture by Ken Albala,Trudy Eden Pdf

Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. Featuring never-before published essays, this anthology follows the intersection of food and faith from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, charting the complex relationship among religious eating habits and politics, culture, and social structure. Theoretically rich and full of engaging portraits, essays consider the rise of food buying and consumerism in the fourteenth century, the Reformation ideology of fasting and its resulting sanctions against sumptuous eating, the gender and racial politics of sacramental food production in colonial America, and the struggle to define "enlightened" Lenten dietary restrictions in early modern France. Essays on the nineteenth century explore the religious implications of wheat growing and breadmaking among New Zealand's Maori population and the revival of the Agape meal, or love feast, among American brethren in Christ Church. Twentieth-century topics include the metaphysical significance of vegetarianism, the function of diet in Greek Orthodoxy, American Christian weight loss programs, and the practice of silent eating rituals among English Benedictine monks. Two introductory essays detail the key themes tying these essays together and survey food's role in developing and disseminating the teachings of Christianity, not to mention providing a tangible experience of faith.

Author : Angel F. Méndez-Montoya
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470674987

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The Theology of Food by Angel F. Méndez-Montoya Pdf

The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played within religious tradition. A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links between theology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguing light Draws on examples from different religions: the significance of the apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of bread as the body of Christ; the eating and fasting around Ramadan for Muslims; and how the dietary laws of Judaism are designed to create an awareness of living in the time and space of the Torah Explores ideas from the fields of literature, politics, and philosophy, as well as theology Takes seriously the idea that food matters, and that the many aspects of eating – table fellowship, culinary traditions, the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of food – are important and complex, and throw light on both religion and our relationship to food

Author : Doris Friedensohn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780813171401

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Eating as I Go by Doris Friedensohn Pdf

What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir of a life shaped by the pleasures of the table, Doris Friedensohn uses eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on her exploration of food over fifty years and across four continents. Relishing couscous in Tunisia and khachapuri in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers come together and maintain their differences through food. As a young woman, Friedensohn was determined not to be a provincial American. Chinese, French, Mexican, and Mediterranean cuisines beckoned to her like mysterious suitors. She responded, pursuing suckling pig, snails, baba ghanoush, tripe, jellyfish, and anything with rosemary or cumin. Each rendezvous with an unfamiliar food was a celebration of cosmopolitan living. Friedensohn's memories range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to the taste of fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with tensions—political, religious, psychological, and spiritual. Eating as I Go is one woman's distinctive mélange of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.

Author : Jonathan K. Crane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231545877

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Eating Ethically by Jonathan K. Crane Pdf

Few activities are as essential to human flourishing as eating, and fewer still are as ethically fraught. Eating well is particularly confusing. We live amid excess, faced with conflicting recommendations, contradictory scientific studies, and complex moral, medical, and environmental consequences that influence our choices. A new eating strategy is urgently needed, one grounded in ethics, informed by biology, supported by philosophy and theology, and, ultimately, personally achievable. Eating Ethically argues persuasively for more adaptive eating practices. Drawing on religion, medicine, philosophy, cognitive science, art, ethics, and more, Jonathan K. Crane shows how distinguishing among the eater, the eaten, and the act of eating promotes a radical reorientation away from external cues and toward internal ones. This turn is vital for survival, according to classic philosophy on appetite and contemporary studies of satiety, metabolic science as well as metaphysics and religion. By intertwining ancient wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with cutting-edge research, Crane concludes that ethical eating is a means to achieve both personal health and social cohesion. Grounded in science and tradition, Eating Ethically shows us what it truly means to eat well.

Author : Prof. Anushree Lokur
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789390951918

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MILLETS–2023: A Transdisciplinary Approach to its Resurgence and Sustainability by Prof. Anushree Lokur Pdf

Millets-2023: A Transdisciplinary approach to its Resurgence and Sustainability endeavours to explore the multifaceted world of millets. The book aims to highlight the nutritional, agricultural, environmental, and socio-economic dimensions of millets. With millets gaining increasing recognition as a sustainable and nutritious food source, the compilation of insightful research papers could be a significance resource for researchers, policymakers, and enthusiasts alike. The topics encapsulated through various research papers touch upon diverse aspect, viz. Socio-cultural, Economic, Geographical and Historical Aspects of Millets, Bio-prospecting and Innovative Sustainable Cultivation Techniques for Millets, Millets Sustainable Solution to Food Security, Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups, Product Development and Marketing Strategies and GO’s, NGO’s and Policies. In other words, the book presents manifold standpoints, providing a well-rounded view of millets and their potential. It emphasizes the importance of integrating millets into mainstream agriculture and food systems to address global challenges such as malnutrition, climate change, and sustainable development. Millets-2023 is a must-read for anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of millets and their potential impact on nutrition, agriculture, environment, and socio-economic development.

Author : Benjamin E. Zeller,Marie W. Dallam,Reid L. Neilson,Nora L Rubel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231537315

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Religion, Food, and Eating in North America by Benjamin E. Zeller,Marie W. Dallam,Reid L. Neilson,Nora L Rubel Pdf

The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Original essays explore the role of food and eating in defining theologies and belief structures, creating personal and collective identities, establishing and challenging boundaries and borders, and helping to negotiate issues of community, religion, race, and nationality. Contributors consider food practices and beliefs among Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists, as well as members of new religious movements, Afro-Caribbean religions, interfaith families, and individuals who consider food itself a religion. They traverse a range of geographic regions, from the Southern Appalachian Mountains to North America's urban centers, and span historical periods from the colonial era to the present. These essays contain a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, emphasizing the embeddedness of food and eating practices within specific religions and the embeddedness of religion within society and culture. The volume makes an excellent resource for scholars hoping to add greater depth to their research and for instructors seeking a thematically rich, vivid, and relevant tool for the classroom.

Author : Alayne Yates
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Eating disorders
ISBN : 087630630X

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Compulsive Exercise and the Eating Disorders by Alayne Yates Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Geoffrey Benjamin,Cynthia Chou
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 9789812301673

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Tribal Communities in the Malay World by Geoffrey Benjamin,Cynthia Chou Pdf

Explores the ways in which the character of tribal societies relate to the Malay kingdoms that have held power in the region for many centuries past, as well as to the modern nation-states of the region. It brings together researchers committed to comparative analysis of the tribal groups living on either side of the Malacca Straits.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Deceptive advertising
ISBN : PSU:000017170840

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Deception and Fraud in the Diet Industry by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy Pdf

Author : Rebecca Lynn Winer,Federica Francesconi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814346327

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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present by Rebecca Lynn Winer,Federica Francesconi Pdf

A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.