Food and Faith in Christian Culture
Food and Faith in Christian Culture
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Abstract
This anthology looks at the intersection of food and faith from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, charting the complex relationships that exist between religious eating habits and politics, cultures and social structures. Its chapters consider the rise of food buying and consumerism in the fourteenth century, the Reformation ideology of fasting and its resulting sanctions against sumptuous eating, the gender and racial politics of sacramental food production in colonial America and the struggle to define “enlightened” Lenten dietary restrictions in early modern France. Chapters on the nineteenth century explore the religious implications of wheat growing and bread making among New Zealand's Maori population and the revival of the Agape meal, or love feast, among American brethren in Christ Church. Twentieth-century topics include the metaphysical significance of vegetarianism, the function of diet in Greek Orthodoxy, American Christian weight loss programs and the practice of silent eating rituals among English Benedictine monks. Two introductory chapter detail the key themes tying the rest of the chapters together and survey food's role in developing and disseminating the teachings of Christianity and in providing a tangible experience of faith.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Trudy Eden
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Prelude
Historical Background to Food and Christianity
Ken Albala
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1
The Urban Influence: Shopping and Consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
Salvatore D. S. Musumeci
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2
The Ideology of Fasting in the Reformation Era
Ken Albala
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3
“The Food Police”: Sumptuary Prohibitions on Food in the Reformation
Johanna B. Moyer
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4
Dirty Things: Bread, Maize, Women, and Christian Identity in Sixteenth-Century America
Heather Martel
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5
Enlightened Fasting: Religious Conviction, Scientific Inquiry, and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern France
Sydney Watts
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6
The Sanctity of Bread: Missionaries and the Promotion of Wheat Growing Among the New Zealand Maori
Hazel Petrie
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7
Commensality and Love Feast: The Agape Meal in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brethren in Christ Church
Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
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8
Metaphysics and Meatless Meals: Why Food Mattered When the Mind Was Everything
Trudy Eden
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9
Fasting and Food Habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Antonia-Leda Matalas and others
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Divine Dieting: A Cultural Analysis of Christian Weight Loss Programs
Samantha Kwan andChristine Sheikh
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11
Eating in Silence in an English Benedictine Monastery
Richard D. G. Irvine
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End Matter
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