Religion and Food
Editori
Illman, Ruth
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2015
Kuvaus
Benjamin E. Zeller
Totem and taboo in the grocery store: quasi-religious foodways
in North America
Graham Harvey
Respectfully eating or not eating: putting food at the centre of Religious Studies
Michel Desjardins
Imagining Jesus, with food
Panu Pihkala
Ecotheology and the theology of eating: convergencies and controversies
Natalia Moragas Segura and Elena Mazzetto
Contexts of offerings and ritual maize in the pictographic record in Central Mexico
Gioia Filocamo
Hungry women: sin and rebellion through food and music in the early modern era
Andrea Gutierrez
Modes of betel consumption in early India: bhoga and abhoga
Bindu Malieckal
Early modern Goa: Indian trade, transcultural medicine, and the Inquisition
Ulrica Söderlind
Religion and diet in a multi-religious city:
a comprehensive study regarding interreligious relations in Tbilisi in everyday life and on feast days
Miriam Abu Salem
Religious dietary rules and the protection of religious freedom:
some evidence from practice in Italy
Katarina Plank
The sacred foodscapes of Thai Buddhist temples in Sweden
David S. Walsh
The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies
in the era of climate change
Joanna Jadwiga Zamorska
Prestige and alcohol in South Mexican fiesta: drinking with saint patrons
in the central valleys of Oaxaca
Patricia Rodrigues de Souza
Food in African Brazilian Candomblé
Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel
as a transnational community
Adrienne Krone
‘A Shmita Manifesto’: a radical sabbatical approach
to Jewish food reform in the United States
Aldea Mulhern
What does it mean to ‘eat Jewishly’? Authorizing discourse
in the Jewish food movement in Toronto, Canada
Ben Kasstan
The taste of trauma: reflections of ageing Shoah survivors
on food and how they re(inscribe) it with meaning
Elina Hankela
Elaborating on ubuntu in a Johannesburg inner-city church
Totem and taboo in the grocery store: quasi-religious foodways
in North America
Graham Harvey
Respectfully eating or not eating: putting food at the centre of Religious Studies
Michel Desjardins
Imagining Jesus, with food
Panu Pihkala
Ecotheology and the theology of eating: convergencies and controversies
Natalia Moragas Segura and Elena Mazzetto
Contexts of offerings and ritual maize in the pictographic record in Central Mexico
Gioia Filocamo
Hungry women: sin and rebellion through food and music in the early modern era
Andrea Gutierrez
Modes of betel consumption in early India: bhoga and abhoga
Bindu Malieckal
Early modern Goa: Indian trade, transcultural medicine, and the Inquisition
Ulrica Söderlind
Religion and diet in a multi-religious city:
a comprehensive study regarding interreligious relations in Tbilisi in everyday life and on feast days
Miriam Abu Salem
Religious dietary rules and the protection of religious freedom:
some evidence from practice in Italy
Katarina Plank
The sacred foodscapes of Thai Buddhist temples in Sweden
David S. Walsh
The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies
in the era of climate change
Joanna Jadwiga Zamorska
Prestige and alcohol in South Mexican fiesta: drinking with saint patrons
in the central valleys of Oaxaca
Patricia Rodrigues de Souza
Food in African Brazilian Candomblé
Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel
as a transnational community
Adrienne Krone
‘A Shmita Manifesto’: a radical sabbatical approach
to Jewish food reform in the United States
Aldea Mulhern
What does it mean to ‘eat Jewishly’? Authorizing discourse
in the Jewish food movement in Toronto, Canada
Ben Kasstan
The taste of trauma: reflections of ageing Shoah survivors
on food and how they re(inscribe) it with meaning
Elina Hankela
Elaborating on ubuntu in a Johannesburg inner-city church
Tiivistelmä
The relationship between food and religion is a lived activity formed by the dynamics of both tradition and adaption. Religious commitments to food are influenced by several different factors, ranging from personal spirituality and experiences to social patterns of belonging as well as ethical, political and doctrinal convictions related to food and eating. Today, this topic is receiving increasing scholarly attention and has become a relevant focus to a broad spectrum of researchers working with different religious traditions and contemporary spiritualities. This volume addresses the questions of why and how persons of various religious and spiritual liaisons seem to engage in food and eating with a growing zeal today from a variety of different theoretical and methodological angles, such as: Folkways/foodways and vernacular practices; Tradition, memory, and nostalgia; Boundaries, identity, and control; Symbolism, authenticity, and fluidity; Consumption and abstention; Ethics and environmentalism; The global, local, and glocal.