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International Scientific Conference Food has a great effect on the formation of human thoughts and spiritual feelings. In addition to the science of medicine, what religions say about food is important. According to Islam, one of the... more
Sul sito “Letture.org” è possibile trovare un’intervista che ho rilasciato riguardo i temi affrontati nel volume “Il Cibo e il Sacro. Tradizioni e Simbologie”, che ho curato insieme alle colleghe Elena Santilli e Alessandra Turchetti. Ho... more
The Introduction to this book is available here: https://www.academia.edu/34095644/Introduction_to_Materiality_and_the_Study_of_Religion_The_Body_of_St_Cuthbert.pdf Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant... more
Sammendrag Denne oppgaven er en religionshistorisk analyse av supermatfenomenet i Norge. Supermat er utvalgte matplanter som anses å være spesielt næringsrike, og å ha medisinske egenskaper. Å følge en supermatdiett innebærer ofte også å... more
Abstract: By appropriating both medical and communication technologies, the gender- reveal party has recently emerged as a ritual performance centered on a dramatically staged disclosure of the sex of a gestating fetus. The... more
L'articolo si prefigge di indagare il rapporto che unisce cibo e religione, alla luce dell'evento festivo e in rapporto a dolci e pani rituali
This article offers a model of conceptualising religion as taste. Using religion and food as a point of entry, it demonstrates how modelling religion as taste permits attention to such concepts as embodiedness, the place of the senses... more
À propos d'Exode 16. Extrait : "La communauté est divisée par tente ce qui devient l’échelle des sous-ensembles du large groupe. Chaque tente est sous la responsabilité d'un chef qui ramasse le qu’est-ce et le rapporte à sa tente pour le... more
At the end of Gabriel Axel's movie "Babette's Feast", the French maid and former chef is praised for her feast but also told she should not have given everything for that purpose - "for our sake". She replies, "It was not for your sake... more
For the indigenous Dene of subarctic Canada, food is central to negotiating their relationships with family, animals, and the spirits of ancestors. Indigenous religions and environmental relationships are seldom discussed in terms of... more
This essay explores how wisdom gleaned from the Musar movement may inspire and enrich Jewish vegan practices. It focuses on approaches to loving-kindness, compassion, empathy, and self-restraint found in the writings of some of the most... more
The goal of the essay is to illustrate, without claiming to be exhaustive, how historiography treated some issues related to the interactions between food and religious culture, highlighting topics of special interest and trying to... more
Abstaining from meat consumption has persistently been a source of debate within religious communities, often functioning as a center pivot around which theological or philosophical orthodoxy and orthopraxy turns. Drawing upon diverse... more
While the religious life in Chinese antiquity knew some forms of fasting, the religiously informed practice of vegetarianism was introduced to China by Buddhist believers only in the Han dynasty. Already in the medieval period, it became... more
Bread is the only "food" that has its unique symbolic and metaphorical meaning in Judaism and Christianity (in the sense of life and spiritual maintenance, as well as moral behavior). Religious breads are present in every period of human... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the importance of rice-beer (zao) amongst the Zeme Nagas. Colonial and Christian missionaries brought in new ideas into social and cultural practices, quite different from their own, within the Zeme... more
Food consumption around the world makes up the basis of human ecology as we eat foods based on our cultural, religious and moral beliefs. Ethical and spiritual concerns have motivated many Greek philosophers like Pythagoras, Plato,... more
Elaborato in preparazione all'esame di psicologia delle scelte alimentari. Il testo presenta le varie scelte alimentari legate all'aspetto religioso. In particolare cerca di analizzare le motivazioni delle scelte alimentari legate al... more
Recent scholarship has shown how investigations into food and poverty contribute to our understanding of late-antique Judaism and Christianity. These areas of inquiry overlap in the study of charity, as providing food was the preeminent... more
Members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a branch of Gaudiya Vaishnavism more commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement, often refer to their faith as the “kitchen religion.” Feeding the public free or... more
Pihko examines inquisition records from medieval Languedoc in order to investigate experiences related to the ritualized and allegedly heretical practice of blessing bread. The chapter provides an overview of the evidence regarding this... more
Religion and food are intrinsically linked. Religion, especially in Antiquity, requires food to form the rite: food as offerings permits the circulation between this world and hereafter, from the living making offerings to the gods and... more
Cari amici, cari colleghi, sono lieto di invitarvi alla presentazione del volume “Il Cibo e il Sacro. Tradizioni e Simbologie” che si terrà sabato 19 giugno, presso il parco monumentale del palazzo Sforza-Cesarini di Genzano di Roma,... more
Le récit de Gn 3 est un texte dense et célèbre. Il met en jeu des données anthropologiques fondamentales, autour de la vie et de la mort, de la procréation, du désir, du travail, du mensonge de la violence et de la souffrance. Mais ce... more
Saperi e sapori dell'accoglienza, Cibo e regole alimentari nelle religioni monoteistiche di Gianpaolo Anderlini 1. A partire dalla tavola "Il cibo è il principale fattore di definizione dell'identità umana, poiché ciò che mangiamo è... more
Identity negotiation is a central part of the immigrant experience. When face to face with a culture or context that is different than one’s homeland, the immigrant must often address what parts of his/her identity are fluid and which... more
Özet Yaradılış itibariyle inançların, yani dinlerin var olduğu bilinmektedir. Din insan ile yaratıcı arasındaki meseledir. Dinler mantığıyla, Allah insanı yiyecek ve içeceğe muhtaç olarak yaratmıştır. Yeme içme ile ilgili kuralları ilk... more
This article is focused on an analysis of symbolic representations of the Aztec warrior – as a winner-fighter and as a deified deceased – in the form of food offerings and vegetal semblances. Afterwards we analyze the possible... more
in: L. Scaffardi e V. Zeno-Zencovich (a cura di), Cibo e diritto. Una prospettiva comparata (vol. 1), Roma TrE-Press, 2020, pp. 25-63
Environmental theology (or, ecotheology) developed slowly during the first half of the twentieth century and has become a major field of study since the late 1960s. While many of the issues discussed in ecotheological works have... more
This article examines the development of ‘eating Jewishly’ among participants at Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs in Toronto, Canada. Participants at Shoresh construct and draw upon Jewish tradition in order to resolve gaps between... more
Despite distorting narratives about extremism, specific individuals and communities of Muslims in America ground themselves in wholesome relationships among people and in the places where they find home. Between 2001 and 2009, Taqwa... more
L’introduzione offre una panoramica critica degli aspetti relativi all’alimentazione connessi alla sfera religiosa, come il ruolo ricoperto dal simbolismo alimentare nei contesti a carattere rituale e nei racconti mitici, il suo definire... more
Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and... more
This report of the Utica 2014 includes my report on the Islamic bone assemblages shedding light on the diet at the 10th-12th c. Pig bones are probably residual and the diet relies mainly on ovicaprids and cattle. Birds are well... more
What’s Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethno- graphic discussions of representations, discourses and practices about and by mothers regarding food and families. These narratives discuss the multiple... more