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Food & faith in Christian culture

Title
Food & faith in Christian culture / edited by Ken Albala & Trudy Eden.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Albala, Ken, 1964-
  • Eden, Trudy.
Description
vi, 265 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Arts and traditions of the table
Uniform Title
Arts and traditions of the table.
Alternative Title
Food and faith in Christian culture
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The urban influence : shopping and consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the mid-fourteenth century / Salvatore D.S. Musumeci -- The ideology of fasting in the Reformation era / Ken Albala -- The food police : sumptuary prohibitions of food in the Reformation / Johanna B. Moyer -- Dirty things : bread, maize, women and Christian identity in sixteenth-century America / Heather Martel -- Enlightened fasting : religious conviction , scientific inquiry, and medical knowledge in early modern France / Sydney Watts -- The sanctity of bread : missionaries and the promotion of wheat growing among the New Zealand Maori / Hazel Petrie -- Commensality and love feast : the agape meal in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brethren in Christ Church / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee -- Metaphysics and meatless meals : why food mattered when the mind was everything / Trudy Eden -- Fasting and food habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Antonia-Leda Matalas, Eleni Tourlouki, and Chrystalleni Lazarou -- Divine dieting : a cultural analysis of Christian weight loss programs / Samantha Kwan and Christine Sheikh -- Eating in silence in an English Benedictine monastery / Richard D.G. Irvine.
Call Number
JFE 12-2734
ISBN
  • 9780231149969 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231149964 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231149976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0231149972 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780231520799 (e-book)
  • 0231520794 (e-book)
LCCN
2011020718
OCLC
YBP 2011020718
Title
Food & faith in Christian culture / edited by Ken Albala & Trudy Eden.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Series
Arts and traditions of the table
Arts and traditions of the table.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Albala, Ken, 1964-
Eden, Trudy.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-2734
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