Food Matters: Tasting, Teaching, Theorizing Religion and Food

Each week in my religion and food course during Spring 2016, a student or I brought foods related to the religious group we were studying into the classroom for all to try. With the first dish they tasted, students asked, “So what makes this food ‘religious'?” This question formed the central t...

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Main Author: Finch, Martha L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2017]
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 3-8
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Food / Religion / Theory
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
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