1st Edition
Eating Religiously Food and Faith in the 21st Century
Preface
Fran Markowitz and Nir Avieli
Introduction—Eating religiously: food and faith in the 21st century
Fran Markowitz and Nir Avieli
1. Food as faith: suffering, salvation and the Paleo diet in Australia
Catie Gressier
2. “Here I can like watermelon”: culinary redemption among the African Hebrew Israelites
Nir Avieli and Fran Markowitz
3. This is not a sacrifice: interpretations of the Madagh among Armenians
Susan Paul Pattie
4. Feeding activism in Russia: the transgressive politics of the church potluck
Melissa L. Caldwell
5. On not eating onions and grains: conspicuous non-consumption in the new Vietnamese religion of Caodaism
Janet Alison Hoskins
6. Fifty shades of kosher: negotiating kashrut in Palestinian food spaces in Israel
Azri Amram
7. “Food unites us… not anymore!?” Indonesian pilgrims eating kosher and halal in Jerusalem
Mirjam Lücking
8. Cooking up religion: women, culture and culinary power
Susan Sered
9. Avoidances and transgressions: agency, religiosity, and moralism in food and politics
Michael Herzfeld
Biography
Nir Avieli is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and former president of the Israeli Anthropological Association. He studies food culture, tourism, gender, heritage, and leisure, and has pursued fieldwork in Vietnam, Israel, Thailand, Zanzibar and, as of recently Greece.
Fran Markowitz is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications address issues in ethnography, community, identity, religion, diasporas, and race. Most recently, Fran (with Nir Avieli) has been researching veganism and millenarianism, and (with Dafna Shir-Vertesh), the phenomenon of almost-peace and almost-war in Israel.
