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Paperback / softback. New. 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. Featuring never-before published essays, this anthology follows the intersection of food and faith from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, charting the complex relationship among religious eating habits and politics, culture, and social structure. Theoretically rich and full of engaging portraits, essays 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. Essays on the nineteenth century explore the religious implications of wheat growing and…
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Food and Faith in Christian Culture Paperback - 2011
by Ken Albala (Editor); Trudy Eden (Editor)
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- Title Food and Faith in Christian Culture
- Author Ken Albala (Editor); Trudy Eden (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition (U
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, NY
- Date 2011-12-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780231149976 / 0231149972
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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- Aspects (Academic): Religious
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Food habits - History, Dinners and dining - Religious aspects -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011020718
- Dewey Decimal Code 248.4
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