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Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Food

Av Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Benjamin E. Zeller

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This handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multi-religious, cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of religion and food. It highlights recent trends and methodologies in religious studies and food studies from the humanities and the social sciences. A team of international scholars provide theoretical frameworks presenting food as integral to the materiality of religions and religions’ functions in daily life, with studies drawing upon teachings from the Abrahamic religions, Asian religions, and indigenous religions as represented in a diverse body of sacred literature, historical sources, and personal narratives.The volume features debates on moral questions and ethical principles related to food sources and food consumption, the nexus of ritual and theology, violence against and treatment of animals and the environment, animal rights, industrialization, racialization, gender, hunger, poverty, hospitality, and contemporary movements working towards social justice, eco-spirituality, and sustainability. Topics include the rhythms of feasting and fasting; notions of purity; forbidden foods;and rituals such as sacrifices. Authors in this volume contribute to the psychology and sociology of food as an essential factor in the construction of individual and group identity, new religions, and to the growing practice of food as a tool in interreligious dialogue.
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Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair and Professor of Religion and Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College, USA. Her publications include The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2017), and The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body (2023). Greenberg co-chairs the AAR Comparative Studies in Religion unit and serves on the Religion and Food Steering Committee.Benjamin E. Zeller is the Irvin L. & Fern D. Young Presidential Professor of Religion at Lake Forest College, USA. Zeller chaired the Religion and Food AAR program unit, serves as co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, and his publications include Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (2014) and The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (Bloomsbury, 2014).

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From its comprehensive Introduction, through the twenty-eight wide-ranging chapters that follow, this timely Handbook more than delivers on the editors’ goal of providing “a model for interdisciplinary and multi-methodological analysis of religion and food”. The volume’s appealing format invites readers to explore individual case studies while also engaging with grand theory and thereby encourages a comparative perspective on how religion and food regularly intersect and interact in everyday lives, as well as in the arcane worlds of sacred institutions and academia. A major accomplishment!

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