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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815403303321

Autore

Freidenreich David M. <1977->

Titolo

Foreigners and their food : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law / / David M. Freidenreich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27849-9

9786613278494

0-520-95027-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Disciplina

201/.5

Soggetti

Food - Religious aspects

Identification (Religion)

Religions - Relations

Jews - Dietary laws

Muslims - Dietary laws

Food - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Style and Abbreviations -- Part One. Introduction: Imagining Otherness -- Part Two. Jewish Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Marking Otherness -- Part Three. Christian Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Defining Otherness -- Part Four. Islamic Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Relativizing Otherness -- Part V. Comparative Case Studies: Engaging Otherness -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Sources -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the "other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-



conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.