The Theology of Food

Eating and the Eucharist

Angel F. Méndez-Montoya (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8967-5 (ISBN)

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The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played within religious tradition.

A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links between theology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguing light
Draws on examples from different religions: the significance of the apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of bread as the body of Christ; the eating and fasting around Ramadan for Muslims; and how the dietary laws of Judaism are designed to create an awareness of living in the time and space of the Torah
Explores ideas from the fields of literature, politics, and philosophy, as well as theology
Takes seriously the idea that food matters, and that the many aspects of eating – table fellowship, culinary traditions, the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of food – are important and complex, and throw light on both religion and our relationship to food

Angel F. Méndez-Montoya, OP, is a member of the Southern Dominican Province in the USA. He currently teaches theology and philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City, where he is also the coordinator of the Faith and Culture Program. He has a doctorate in philosophical theology from the University of Virginia (USA) and was scholar in residence at Cambridge University (UK).

Foreword vi
Joaquín Racionero Page Preface ix

Acknowledgments x

Introduction. Food Talk: Overlapping Matters 1

1 The Making of Mexican Molli and Alimentary Theology in the Making 11

2 Sabor/Saber: Taste and the Eros of Cognition 45

3 Being Nourished: Food Matters 77

4 Sharing in the Body of Christ and the Theopolitics of Superabundance 113

Conclusion. Food Notes: Prolegomenon to a Eucharistic Discourse 157

Index 161

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.2.2009
Reihe/Serie	Illuminations: Theory & Religion
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	1-4051-8967-3 / 1405189673
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-8967-5 / 9781405189675
Zustand	Neuware