Bread Beyond Borders: Food as a Lens Into Tweed's Theory of Religion
In this article I rely on Tweed's theory of religion as found in Crossing and Dwelling (2006) to inform my exploration of how transnational identities are negotiated through food. I show how food is an ideal lens through which to see Tweed's theory at work on the ground, in the lives, and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2017]
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 9-17 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tweed, Thomas A. 1954-, Crossing and dwelling
/ Food
/ Migration
/ Transnationaization
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
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| Summary: | In this article I rely on Tweed's theory of religion as found in Crossing and Dwelling (2006) to inform my exploration of how transnational identities are negotiated through food. I show how food is an ideal lens through which to see Tweed's theory at work on the ground, in the lives, and bodies, of transnational migrants. Focussing on the last five words of Tweed's definition of religion, namely that religions make homes and cross boundaries, I address how food plays the same role that Tweed posits for religion in the processes of home making and boundary crossing. Using examples from my ethnographic fieldwork in Paris, France and Montréal, Canada I show how, for my informants, food (in place of religion in Tweed's theory) designates where they are from, identifies who they are with and prescribes how they move across the various borders, both physical and psychological in their lives. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.32260 |