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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. These never-before published essays map the intersection of food and faith over t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Albala, Ken, 1964- (Editor ), Eden, Trudy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Arts and traditions of the table.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Food > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Food habits > History.
Dinners and dining > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Spiritual Growth.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Discipleship.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Dinners and dining > Religious aspects > Christianity
Food habits
Food > Religious aspects > Christianity
Christentum
Christliche Existenz
Speise
Speiseritual
Electronic books.
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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