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



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Autore: Freidenreich David M. <1977-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Foreigners and their food : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law / / David M. Freidenreich Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina: 201/.5
Soggetto topico: Food - Religious aspects
Identification (Religion)
Religions - Relations
Jews - Dietary laws
Muslims - Dietary laws
Food - Religious aspects - Christianity
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Foreigners and their food  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27849-9
9786613278494
0-520-95027-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815403303321
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