Food & faith in Christian culture / edited by Ken Albala & Trudy Eden.
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. These never-before published essays map the intersection of food and faith over t...
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| Series: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Trudy Eden
- Historical background to food and Christianity / Ken Albala
- The urban influence : shopping and consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the mid-fourteenth century / Salvatore D.S. Musumeci
- The ideology of fasting in the Reformation era / Ken Albala
- The food police : sumptuary prohibitions of food in the Reformation / Johanna B. Moyer
- Dirty things : bread, maize, women and Christian identity in sixteenth-century America / Heather Martel
- Enlightened fasting : religious conviction, scientific inquiry, and medical knowledge in early modern France / Sydney Watts
- The sanctity of bread : missionaries and the promotion of wheat growing among the New Zealand Maori / Hazel Petrie
- Commensality and love feast : the agape meal in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brethren in Christ Church / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
- Metaphysics and meatless meals : why food mattered when the mind was everything / Trudy Eden
- Fasting and food habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Antonia-Leda Matalas, Eleni Tourlouki, and Chrystalleni Lazarou
- Divine dieting : a cultural analysis of Christian weight loss programs / Samantha Kwan and Christine Sheikh
- Eating in silence in an English Benedictine monastery / Richard D.G. Irvine.