Food as Outreach: Bridging Social Boundaries with Sacred Feasts
Food is a medium for extending charity and constituting community, in the face of social and cultural divisions, based on perceptions of purity. The work of charitable groups The Red Frogs, The Homeless Run, and Reverend Bill Crews' Loaves and Fishes in contemporary Australia creates links betw...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2016]
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Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 300-316 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marginal group
/ Exclusion
/ Food
/ Interpersonal communication
/ Religious festival
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
Further subjects: | B
Loaves and Fishes
B SOCIAL boundaries B Food charity B Purity B charitable giving B FASTS & feasts B Homeless Run B Faith B Red Frogs B Social Constructionism B Commensality |
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