Food Faith In Christian Culture

Author : Ken Albala,Trudy Eden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231520799

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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 : Ken Albala,Trudy Eden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231149969

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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.

Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Paul Fieldhouse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610694124

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Food, Feasts, and Faith [2 volumes] by Paul Fieldhouse Pdf

An indispensable resource for exploring food and faith, this two-volume set offers information on food-related religious beliefs, customs, and practices from around the world. Why do Catholics eat fish on Fridays? Why are there retirement homes for aged cows in India? What culture holds ceremonies to welcome the first salmon? More than five billion people worldwide claim a religious identity that shapes the way they think about themselves, how they act, and what they eat. Food, Feasts, and Faith: An Encyclopedia of Food Culture in World Religions explores how the food we eat every day often serves purposes other than to keep us healthy and stay alive: we eat to express our faith and to adhere to ethnic or cultural traditions that are part of who we are. This book provides readers with an understanding of the rich world of food and faith. It contains more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries that describe the beliefs and customs of well-established major world religions and sects as well as those of smaller faith communities and new religious movements. The entries cover topics such as religious food rules, religious festivals and symbolic foods, and vegetarianism and veganism, as well as general themes such as rites of passage, social justice, hospitality, and compassion. Each entry on religion explains what the religious dietary laws and guidelines are and how these were interpreted and put into practice historically and in modern settings. The coverage also includes important festivals and feast days as well as significant religious figures and organizations. Additionally, some 160 sidebars provide examples and more detailed information as well as fun facts.

Author : Fred Bahnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451663303

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Soil and Sacrament by Fred Bahnson Pdf

Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers reconnect with the land and divine faith.

Author : Michael Schut
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819227355

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Food & Faith by Michael Schut Pdf

From the creator of the bestseller Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective comes Food & Faith. Food is itself a joyful gift – recall how the gift of food so often mediates the sanctity and preciousness of life. This collection of reflections by Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Johnson, Alan Durning and others helps you start thinking about the moral, spiritual and economic implications of eating. Readings focus on the enjoyment and spirituality of good food, ways in which eating connects us to the land and to each other, and on the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of daily food choices. Food & Faith includes an eight-week study guide for groups or individuals, which leads to action: setting a table that is healthy, joyful and just.

Author : Loyle Shannon Jung
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Gary W. Fick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791478554

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Food, Farming, and Faith by Gary W. Fick Pdf

Food, Farming, and Faith looks at agricultural sustainability and Christianity. Using scripture and science, Gary W. Fick—a Christian agricultural scientist—demonstrates that faith can inform decisions about creating, managing, even consuming our food. The book highlights such topics as food and celebration, environmental care, ecology and faith, soil and water stewardship, animal welfare, and the impact of poverty on women and our food supply. Throughout, Fick presents and discusses biblical passages that comment on these areas and provides insight from personal experiences growing up in a ranching family, in teaching sustainable agriculture, and as a scientist. Ultimately, Fick challenges the reader to think about eating more thoughtfully so that we have good food, a healthy environment, and a comfortable lifestyle all at the same time.

Author : Emily Stimpson Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941447996

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The Catholic Table by Emily Stimpson Chapman Pdf

Many of us struggle to understand and receive food as a natural gift from God. Some of us eat too much food. Or we eat too little. Often, we eat without gratitude, without charity, without respect. But, as award-winning author Emily Stimpson Chapman explains in The Catholic Table, with a sacramental worldview the supernatural gift of God's grace can transform and heal us through the food we make, eat, and share.

Author : Paul Fieldhouse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216085959

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Food, Feasts, and Faith [2 volumes] by Paul Fieldhouse Pdf

An indispensable resource for exploring food and faith, this two-volume set offers information on food-related religious beliefs, customs, and practices from around the world. Why do Catholics eat fish on Fridays? Why are there retirement homes for aged cows in India? What culture holds ceremonies to welcome the first salmon? More than five billion people worldwide claim a religious identity that shapes the way they think about themselves, how they act, and what they eat. Food, Feasts, and Faith: An Encyclopedia of Food Culture in World Religions explores how the food we eat every day often serves purposes other than to keep us healthy and stay alive: we eat to express our faith and to adhere to ethnic or cultural traditions that are part of who we are. This book provides readers with an understanding of the rich world of food and faith. It contains more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries that describe the beliefs and customs of well-established major world religions and sects as well as those of smaller faith communities and new religious movements. The entries cover topics such as religious food rules, religious festivals and symbolic foods, and vegetarianism and veganism, as well as general themes such as rites of passage, social justice, hospitality, and compassion. Each entry on religion explains what the religious dietary laws and guidelines are and how these were interpreted and put into practice historically and in modern settings. The coverage also includes important festivals and feast days as well as significant religious figures and organizations. Additionally, some 160 sidebars provide examples and more detailed information as well as fun facts.

Author : Angel F. Méndez-Montoya
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118241479

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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 : Ken Albala,Trudy Eden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231149976

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

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.

Author : Susan Reuben,Sophie Pelham
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1845079868

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Food and Faith by Susan Reuben,Sophie Pelham Pdf

Food has always been central to religious practice. From fasting at Ramadan to feasting at Diwali, from the laws of kashrut to the taking of communion, a great deal can be learned about a religion through an understanding of its link with food. Six children from six religions tell their stories through words and photographs. The text is in the first person with each child speaking directly to the reader, making an engaging and visually appealing introduction to this important aspect of religion. The book covers six major religions: Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism and looks at celebrations, rules, fasting, and food and drink in rituals. Also included are authentic recipes for pancakes, honey cake, pakoras, coconut barfi and puris. All the children featured are from the respective religions and cultural background. The book has been developed with the help of expert consultants from each religion.

Author : Nir Avieli,Fran Markowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000988154

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Eating Religiously by Nir Avieli,Fran Markowitz Pdf

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 : Paul Fieldhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1440846146

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Food, Feasts, and Faith by Paul Fieldhouse Pdf