Food and Faith in Christian Culture /

Food and Faith in Christian Culture / / ed. by Trudy Eden, Ken Albala.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Albala, Ken,
Eden, Trudy,
Irvine, Richard D. G.,
Kwan, Samantha,
Lazarou, Chrystalleni,
Lee, Heidi Oberholtzer,
Martel, Heather,
Matalas, Antonia-Leda,
Moyer, Johanna B.,
Musumeci, Salvatore D. S.,
Petrie, Hazel,
Sheikh, Christine,
Tourlouki, Eleni,
Watts, Sydney,
HerausgeberIn:
Albala, Ken,
Eden, Trudy,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Historical Background to Food and Christianity
  • 1. The Urban Influence. Shopping and Consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
  • 2. The Ideology of Fasting in the Reformation Era
  • 3. "The Food Police": Sumptuary Prohibitions on Food in the Reformation
  • 4. Dirty Things: Bread, Maize, Women, and Christian Identity in Sixteenth-Century America
  • 5. Enlightened Fasting: Religious Conviction, Scientific Inquiry, and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern France
  • 6. The Sanctity of Bread: Missionaries and the Promotion of Wheat Growing Among the New Zealand Maori
  • 7. Commensality and Love Feast: The Agape Meal in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brethren in Christ Church
  • 8. Metaphysics and Meatless Meals: Why Food Mattered When the Mind Was Everything
  • 9. Fasting and Food Habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • 10. Divine Dieting: A Cultural Analysis of Christian Weight Loss Programs
  • 11. Eating in Silence in an English Benedictine Monastery
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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