Food and Faith in Christian Culture

by Ken Albala

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149972
• ISBN13: 9780231149976
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher