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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Food

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This handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multi-religious, cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of religion and food. It highlights recent trends and methodologies in religious studies and food studies from the humanities and the social sciences. A team of international scholars provide theoretical frameworks presenting food as integral to the materiality of religions and religions’ functions in daily life, with studies drawing upon teachings from the Abrahamic religions, Asian religions, and indigenous religions as represented in a diverse body of sacred literature, historical sources, and personal narratives.

The volume features debates on moral questions and ethical principles related to food sources and food consumption, the nexus of ritual and theology, violence against and treatment of animals and the environment, animal rights, industrialization, racialization, gender, hunger, poverty, hospitality, and contemporary movements working towards social justice, eco-spirituality, and sustainability. Topics include the rhythms of feasting and fasting; notions of purity; forbidden foods;
and rituals such as sacrifices. Authors in this volume contribute to the psychology and sociology of food as an essential factor in the construction of individual and group identity, new religions, and to the growing practice of food as a tool in interreligious dialogue.

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Editor

Benjamin E. Zeller, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9789369524426

Number of pages

544

Publisher

Year of Publishing

2026

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This handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multi-religious, cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of religion and food. It highlights recent trends and methodologies in religious studies and food studies from the humanities and the social sciences. A team of international scholars provide theoretical frameworks presenting food as integral to the materiality of religions and religions’ functions in daily life, with studies drawing upon teachings from the Abrahamic religions, Asian religions, and indigenous religions as represented in a diverse body of sacred literature, historical sources, and personal narratives.

The volume features debates on moral questions and ethical principles related to food sources and food consumption, the nexus of ritual and theology, violence against and treatment of animals and the environment, animal rights, industrialization, racialization, gender, hunger, poverty, hospitality, and contemporary movements working towards social justice, eco-spirituality, and sustainability. Topics include the rhythms of feasting and fasting; notions of purity; forbidden foods;
and rituals such as sacrifices. Authors in this volume contribute to the psychology and sociology of food as an essential factor in the construction of individual and group identity, new religions, and to the growing practice of food as a tool in interreligious dialogue.

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (Rollins College, USA) and Benjamin E. Zeller (Lake Forest College, USA)1. Farming: Religion and Sustainable Agriculture, 2. Gathering: Nourishing a Local Movement for Justice at The Gainesville Catholic Worker, 3. Cooking: “Traditions Reborn”: Practising Everyday Hinduism through the Cooking and Documenting of Hindu Vrata Recipes on the Internet, 4. Nurturing: Faiz al-Mawaid al-Burhaniyah and the Dawoodi Bohra Community, 5. Contaminating: Don’t Touch the Water: Women’s Labor and Presence in Tibetan Monastic Kitchens, 6. Deciding: Decision-making Avenues on Cultured Meat in the Jain, Hindu and Jewish Traditions,   and 7. Communicating: Interspecies Communication and Mnemonics of Sacred Bodily Eating Practice in Candomblé, 8. Slaughtering: Shechita (Jewish Ritual Slaughter), the Kosher Dietary Laws, the Meat Industry, and the Question of Humane Slaughter in the United States, 9. Communing: The Eucharist and Feminist Theology, 10. Welcoming: Food, Hospitality, and Ritual in the Jewish Tradition, 11. Tasting: Networks of Foods, Peoples, and Religions, 12. Eating: Feasting with the Deities: African Foodscapes and Ritual Imagination, 13. Transforming: Ritual Cultivation of Food Security in Jewish Temple Traditions, 14. Storytelling: The Hungry Goddess: Food, Consumption, and Liberation in Tantric Kali Narratives, 15. Consuming: Religion and Vegetarianism, 16. Abstaining: Buddhist Vegetarianism, 17. Interpreting: Jain Veganism in Dialogue with Jain Vegetarianism: Instrumentalizing Jain Scriptures in Global Debates, 18. Valuing: Ahimsa, Animals, and Vegetarianism in Hindu Literature, 19. Savoring: Sikh Scripture: A Platter of Food, Nikky-Guninder 20. Discerning: Food for Non Thought: The Role of Diet in Yoga Texts as an Aid to Stilling the Mind,  21. Dieting: The Repurposing of Christian Sin-Talk in Women’s Weight Loss Culture: Feminist theological reflections from the UK, 22. Speaking: We Eat to Die and Die to Eat: When Food Speaks a Higher Language than the Ordinary, 23. Living: Lived Religion and Food, 24. Drinking: Discerning Spirits: Christianity and Alcohol, 25. Ingesting: Pomegranates, Aptitude, and Indigestion in Medieval Islamic Learning, 26. Identifying: Israeli Food and Ethnic Identity in American Jewry, 27. Sharing: Culinary Diplomacy: Settling Religious Feuds Through Food,   and Joseph Pool28. Delineating: Halal and Tayyib: Exploring the Dimensions of Permissible and Pure Food in Islam, 

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